DocumentCode
1364810
Title
Vaccination policies for chaos reduction in childhood epidemics
Author
Piccardi, Carlo ; Lazzaris, Simone
Author_Institution
Dipt. di Elettronica e Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Volume
45
Issue
5
fYear
1998
fDate
5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
591
Lastpage
595
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of controlling a childhood epidemic described by a susceptible-infective-recovered (SIR) model. The epidemic has a chaotic behavior, with large outbreaks entailing considerable costs. The control problem is set up to perform a chaos reduction, namely to yield a beneficial compression of the outbreaks of infectives. A simple class of vaccination policies is considered with this aim.
Keywords
biocontrol; chaos; patient treatment; physiological models; chaos reduction; childhood epidemics; diseases; infectives outbreaks compression; susceptible-infective-recovered model; vaccination policies; Chaos; Cities and towns; Contracts; Costs; Diseases; Helium; Measurement standards; Measurement uncertainty; Nonlinear systems; Real time systems; Child; Disease Outbreaks; Fuzzy Logic; Health Policy; Humans; Infection; Models, Statistical; Nonlinear Dynamics; Policy Making; Seasons; Vaccination;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9294
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/10.668749
Filename
668749
Link To Document