A Decision-Theoretic Model of Disease Surveillance and Control and a Prototype Implementation for the Disease Influenza

Author

Wagner, Michael ; Cooper, Gregory ; Tsui, Fuchiang ; Espino, Jeremy U. ; Harkema, Hendrik ; Levander, John ; Villamarin, Ricardo ; Millett, Nicholas ; Brown, Shawn T. ; Gallaggher, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Inf., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

1-5 April 2012

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

54

Abstract

This paper first describes a decision-theoretic model of disease surveillance and control. It then describes a prototype system for influenza monitoring based on the model. The decision-theoretic model connects disparate work epidemiological modelling and disease control under a uniform mathematical formulation. We expect that this model will stimulate new avenues of research in both fields.

Keywords

decision theory; diseases; prototypes; decision theoretic model; disease control; disease influenza; disease surveillance; epidemiological modelling; influenza monitoring; prototype implementation; prototype system; uniform mathematical formulation; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Diseases; Influenza; Mathematical model; Sociology; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW), 2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1640-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDEW.2012.32

Filename

6313655