Policies for biodefense revisited: the prioritized vaccination process for Smallpox
dc.contributor.author | Kress, Moshe | |
dc.date | 2003 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-14T17:04:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-03-14T17:04:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10945/737 | |
dc.description.abstract | Handling bioterror events that involve contagious agents is a major concern in the war against terror, and is a cause for debate among policymakers about the best response policy. At the core of this debate stands the question which of the two post-event policies to adopt: mass vaccination-where maximum vaccination capacity is utilized to uniformly inoculate the entire population, or trace (also called ring or targeted) vaccination-where mass vaccination capabilities are traded off with tracing capabilities to selectively inoculate only contacts (or suspected contacts) of infective individuals. We present a dynamic epidemic-intervention model that expands previous models by capturing some additional key features of the situation and by generalizing some assumptions regarding the probability distributions of inter-temporal parameters. The model comprises a set of difference equations. The model is implemented to analyze alternative response policies. It is shown that a mixture of mass and trace vaccination policies-the prioritized vaccination policy-is more effective than either of the two aforementioned policies. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 4, 30 p.: ill. (some col.);28 cm. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.title | Policies for biodefense revisited: the prioritized vaccination process for Smallpox | en_US |
dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |
dc.contributor.corporate | Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) | |
dc.contributor.department | Operations Research | |
dc.subject.author | Vaccination | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Smallpox | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Bioterrorism | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Terrorism | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Prevention | en_US |
dc.identifier.oclc | ocm53121077 | |
dc.identifier.npsreport | NPS-OR-03-008 | |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
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