The Potential Health Care Costs And Resource Use Associated With COVID-19 In The United States: A simulation estimate of the direct medical costs and health care …

SM Bartsch, MC Ferguson, JA McKinnell, KJ O'shea… - Health …, 2020‏ - healthaffairs.org
With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the major concerns is the
direct medical cost and resource use burden imposed on the US health care system. We …

[HTML][HTML] Pandemics: risks, impacts, and mitigation

N Madhav, B Oppenheim, M Gallivan… - … improving health and …, 2017‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase
morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social …

How simulation modelling can help reduce the impact of COVID-19

CSM Currie, JW Fowler, K Kotiadis, T Monks… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Modelling has been used extensively by all national governments and the World Health
Organisation in deciding on the best strategies to pursue in mitigating the effects of COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies in India: A mathematical modelling study

BH Foy, B Wahl, K Mehta, A Shet, GI Menon… - International Journal of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Background The development and widespread use of an effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
could prevent substantial morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19 and mitigate the …

Agent-based modeling in public health: current applications and future directions

M Tracy, M Cerdá, KM Keyes - Annual review of public health, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Agent-based modeling is a computational approach in which agents with a specified set of
characteristics interact with each other and with their environment according to predefined …

Systems science methods in public health: dynamics, networks, and agents

DA Luke, KA Stamatakis - Annual review of public health, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
Complex systems abound in public health. Complex systems are made up of heterogeneous
elements that interact with one another, have emergent properties that are not explained by …

Lessons from a decade of individual-based models for infectious disease transmission: a systematic review (2006-2015)

L Willem, F Verelst, J Bilcke, N Hens, P Beutels - BMC infectious diseases, 2017‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Individual-based models (IBMs) are useful to simulate events subject
to stochasticity and/or heterogeneity, and have become well established to model the …

A systems science perspective and transdisciplinary models for food and nutrition security

RA Hammond, L Dubé - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
We argue that food and nutrition security is driven by complex underlying systems and that
both research and policy in this area would benefit from a systems approach. We present a …

FRED (A Framework for Reconstructing Epidemic Dynamics): an open-source software system for modeling infectious diseases and control strategies using census …

JJ Grefenstette, ST Brown, R Rosenfeld, J DePasse… - BMC public health, 2013‏ - Springer
Background Mathematical and computational models provide valuable tools that help public
health planners to evaluate competing health interventions, especially for novel …

Allocation of COVID-19 vaccines under limited supply

X Chen, M Li, D Simchi-Levi, T Zhao - MedRxiv, 2020‏ - medrxiv.org
This paper considers how to allocate Covid-19 vaccines to different age groups when limited
vaccines are available over time. The disease dynamics is specified by an age-structured …