Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza.
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies has
released Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik)
1. a widespread epidemic of a disease.
2. widely epidemic.
pan·dem·ic
adj.
Epidemic over a wide geographic area.
n. Influenza--A Letter
Report, which discusses influenza pandemic Note: For information about the content, tone and sourcing of this article, please see the tags at the bottom of this page.
An influenza pandemic models and use of those
models to predict the effects that various community containment
policies might have on disease transmission. The report was compiled by
the Committee on Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza influenza or flu, acute, highly contagious disease caused by a virus; formerly known as the grippe. There are three types of the virus, designated A, B, and C, but only types A and B cause more serious contagious infections. and the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. It
includes information on influenza epidemiology epidemiology, field of medicine concerned with the study of epidemics, outbreaks of disease that affect large numbers of people. Epidemiologists, using sophisticated statistical analyses, field investigations, and complex laboratory techniques, investigate the cause , models of containment
strategies for pandemic influenza, evaluations of models for community
containment, historical analyses, lessons from simulation models,
discussion of the role that containment strategies can play, and an
examination of the impact those strategies might have on communities.
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