Keogh-Brown, Marcus R.; Wren-Lewis, Simon; Edmunds, W. John - In: Health Economics 19 (2010) 11, pp. 1345-1360
Little is known about the possible impact of an influenza pandemic on a nation's economy. We applied the UK macroeconomic model 'COMPACT' to epidemiological data on previous UK influenza pandemics, and extrapolated a sensitivity analysis to cover more extreme disease scenarios. Analysis suggests...