Policies for biodefense revisited: The prioritized vaccination process for smallpox

Moshe Kress ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2006, vol. 148, issue 1, 5-23

Abstract: Handling bioterror events that involve contagious agents is a major concern for authorities and 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 or trace (also called ring or targeted) vaccination. We present a new dynamic epidemic-intervention model that captures key features of the situation and generalizes some previous assumptions regarding the probability distributions of inter-temporal parameters. 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. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LCC 2006

Keywords: Mass vaccination; Trace vaccination; Prioritized vaccination; Potentially traceable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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