Modeling community containment for pandemic influenza
Subtitle: a letter report
By: Committee on Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Theoretical Models; Disease Outbreaks; Prevention & control; Communicable Disease Control; Methods; Human Influenza
Description: Letter from the Committee on its review of (1) the quality of existing models about a potential influenza pandemic and their utility for predicting the effects of various community containment policies on disease mitigation; (2) the available science and previous analyses of the efficacy of community mitigation approaches; and (3) the historical record of community interventions utilized during previous influenza pandemics and other relevant outbreaks.
Notes: Title from Web page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Issued in OpenBook format (ix, 37 p.).

Mode of access: Internet.