Improving decision support for infectious disease prevention and control aligning models and other tools with policymakers' needs

"This report describes decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, that are relevant to infectious disease prevention, detection, and response and aligns these tools with real-world policy questions that the tools can help address. The intended audience includes technic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manheim, David
Other Authors: Chamberlin, Margaret, Osoba, Osonde, Vardavas, Raffaele
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, California Rand Corporation [2016], 2016
Series:[Research report]
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-42)
  • Decision support: a collaborative endeavor
  • Decision support using models
  • Nonmodeling decision-support approaches
  • Alignment between policy questions and decision-support approaches
  • Recommendations and discussion