• Title of article

    A simple explanation for the low impact of border control as a countermeasure to the spread of an infectious disease

  • Author/Authors

    Scalia Tomba، نويسنده , , Gianpaolo and Wallinga، نويسنده , , Jacco، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    70
  • To page
    72
  • Abstract
    A simple model for the effect of border control or travel restrictions is proposed. It can be used to predict the corresponding results in quite complex disease spread models and has the advantage of providing easy qualitative understanding of the effects of this kind of intervention.
  • Keywords
    Disease spread model , Countermeasures , Border control
  • Journal title
    Mathematical Biosciences
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Mathematical Biosciences
  • Record number

    1590146