Toward a containment strategy for smallpox bioterror : an individual-based computational approach /

"Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror describes the scientific results and policy implications of a simulation of a smallpox epidemic in a two-town country. The model was developed by an interdisciplinary team from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Broo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Epstein, Joshua M., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Smallpox > Epidemiology > Computer simulation.
Bioterrorism > Computer simulation.
Epidemics > Prevention > Computer simulation.
Bioterrorism.
Smallpox > prevention & control
Communicable Disease Control
Smallpox Vaccine > therapeutic use
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism > prevention & control
Computer Simulation
Communicable Disease Control > methods
Variole > Épidémiologie > Simulation par ordinateur.
Bioterrorisme > Simulation par ordinateur.
Bioterrorisme.
Simulation par ordinateur.
simulation.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The county-level model
  • Simulated epidemics
  • Vaccination strategies
  • Bifurcation and epidemic quenching
  • A balanced policy
  • Research conducted under the auspices of the smallpox modeling working group
  • Further research.

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