Model-Informed Risk Assessment and Decision Making for an Emerging Infectious Disease in the Asia-Pacific Region.

• Main Authors: Robert Moss (Author), Roslyn I Hickson (Author), Jodie McVernon (Author), James M McCaw (Author), Krishna Hort (Author), Jim Black (Author), John R Madden (Author), Nhi H Tran (Author), Emma S McBryde (Author), Nicholas Geard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Effective response to emerging infectious disease (EID) threats relies on health care systems that can detect and contain localised outbreaks before they reach a national or international scale. The Asia-Pacific region contains low and middle income countries in which the risk of EID outb...