Decision-making for foot-and-mouth disease control: Objectives matter

Decision-making for foot-and-mouth disease control: Objectives matter

Formal decision-analytic methods can be used to frame disease control problems, the first step of which is to define a clear and specific objective. We demonstrate the imperative of framing clearly-defined management objectives in finding optimal control actions for control of disease outbreaks. We...

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Main Authors: William J.M. Probert, Katriona Shea, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Michael C. Runge, Tim E. Carpenter, Salome Dürr, M. Graeme Garner, Neil Harvey, Mark A. Stevenson, Colleen T. Webb, Marleen Werkman, Michael J. Tildesley, Matthew J. Ferrari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-06-01
Series:Epidemics
Subjects:
Epidemiology
Management
Decision making
Optimisation
Objectives
Foot-and-mouth disease
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175543651500095X

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