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Modeling the Impact and Intervention of a Sexually Transmitted Disease: Human Papilloma Virus
Corley, Courtney D. - 2006
% vaccination coverage will be probable; hence, the need for vaccination strategies that will have the greatest reduction on the …-biased vaccination strategies: one model incorporates temporal demographics (i.e., age) in population compartments; the other non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475073
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Cost-effectiveness of Selected Immunisation Programs in Australia
Vittal Mogasale - 2010
practice and vaccination costs in Australia. This thesis describes cost-effectiveness of two selected immunisation … interventions in Australia: influenza and hepatitis B. The cost-effectiveness of reducing the influenza vaccination age threshold to … 50 from the current 65 was analysed first. Next, the cost-effectiveness of universal hepatitis B infant vaccination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448701
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Rates of SARS-COV-2 transmission and vaccination impact the fate of vaccine-resistant strains
Rella, Simón A.; Kulikova, Yuliya; Dermitzakis, …
-like pattern of the pandemic and consider the impact of the rate of vaccination and the strength of non-pharmaceutical intervention … measures on the probability of emergence of a resistant strain. As expected, we found that a fast rate of vaccination decreases … end of the vaccination campaign can substantially reduce the probability of resistant strain establishment. These results …
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A Confidence-based Aberration Interpretation Framework For Outbreak Conciliation
Shamir N Mukhi - University of Manitoba, Public Health Agency of Canada - 2010
Health surveillance can be viewed as an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for use in planning, implementation, and evaluation of a given health system, in potentially multiple spheres (ex: animal, human, environment). As we move into a sophisticated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462750
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Konsequenzen des TRIPS-Übereinkommens für die Arzneimittelversorgung von Entwicklungsländern
Oppermann, Julia - 2008
Mit der Gründung der WTO am 1.1.1995 trat das TRIPS-Übereinkommen in Kraft. Es verpflichtet alle WTO Mitglieder zur Umsetzung von Rechten zum Schutze des geistigen Eigentums, welche dem Niveau industrialisierter Staaten nahezu entsprechen. Die Stärkung internationaler Immaterialgüterrechte...
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468330
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468335
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468340
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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