When to Control Endemic Infections by Focusing on High-Risk Groups

Background: For nontransmissible diseases, decisions between interventions focused on high-risk groups and unfocused interventions can be based on attributable-risk calculations. The assumptions of those calculations, however, are violated for infectious diseases. Methods: We used deterministic comp...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2005-09, Vol.16 (5), p.621-627
Hauptverfasser:	Koopman, James S., Simon, Carl P., Riolo, Chris P.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Communicable Disease Control - methods Communicable Diseases - epidemiology Communicable Diseases - transmission Depopulation Disease risk Disease Susceptibility Disease transmission Endemic Diseases - prevention & control Epidemiology Human immunodeficiency virus Human viral diseases Humans Incidence Infection control Infections Infectious diseases Medical sciences Miscellaneous Modeling Models, Statistical Predisposing factors Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Risk Assessment Time Factors Vaccination Viral diseases Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids
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