How decision makers can use quantitative approaches to guide outbreak responses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1776, 2019, Pages

  Morgan, Oliver ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Infectious diseases; Modelling; Outbreaks

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY STRATEGY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85065418894     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0365     Document Type: Review

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