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Centaurus; international magazine of the history of science and medicine, 2021 As COVID‐19 drags on and new vaccines promise widespread immunity, the world's attention has turned to predicting how the present pandemic will end. How do societies know when an epidemic is over and normal life can resume?
Erica Charters, Kristin Heitman
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 In this paper, I propose an economic theory that addresses the epidemic character of opioid epidemics. I consider a community in which individuals are heterogenous with respect to the experience of chronic pain and susceptibility to addiction and live through two periods.
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Evaluation of diarrheal disease surveillance in the Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon, 2016
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background: Between 2013 and 2015, the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon received about 51 000 refugees fleeing Boko Haram. A rapid increase in population and inadequate sanitary installations increase the risk of diarrheal disease.
F.C. Amabo +3 more
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Inductive Reasoning Games as Influenza Vaccination Models: Mean Field Analysis [PDF]
, 2006 We define and analyze an inductive reasoning game of voluntary yearly vaccination in order to establish whether or not a population of individuals acting in their own self-interest would be able to prevent influenza epidemics.
D. Challet +9 more
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The EVALI and Youth Vaping Epidemics - Implications for Public Health.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 The EVALI and Youth Vaping Epidemics Interventions aimed at curbing two related U.S. epidemics connected with vaping — an outbreak of lung injuries and a continued surge in use by young people — sh...
Brian A. King +3 more
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For-Profit Hospitals Out of Business? Financial Sustainability During the COVID-19 Epidemic Emergency Response [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 This perspective argues that for-profit hospitals will be heavily affected by epidemic crises, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.
Florien Margareth Kruse +1 more
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Effects of diffusion rates on epidemic spreads in metapopulation networks
, 2010 It is often useful to represent the infectious dynamics of mobile agents by metapopulation models. In such a model, metapopulations form a static network, and individuals migrate from one metapopulation to another.
Masuda, Naoki
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Demographic Perspectives on Mortality of Covid-19 and Other Epidemics
, 2020 What would a hypothetical one million US deaths in the Covid-19 epidemic mean for mortality of individuals at the population level? To put estimates of Covid-19 mortality into perspective, we estimate age-specific mortality for an epidemic claiming for ...
J. Goldstein, Ronald D. Lee
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediter- ranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we estimate the speed (in kilometers per day) of transmission of the disease between the transmitting and the ...
Lars Boerner, Battista Severgnini
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Competing epidemics on complex networks
, 2011 Human diseases spread over networks of contacts between individuals and a substantial body of recent research has focused on the dynamics of the spreading process.
Brian Karrer +3 more
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