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Optimal immunisation policies for epidemics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Andris Abakuks
Andris Abakuks*
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University of Sussex
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Abstract

Policies of immunising the susceptibles in the general stochastic epidemic are considered. With costs assigned to the infection and immunisation of susceptibles, an optimal policy is found which at any stage minimises the expected future cost. Optimal policies are also found for the general deterministic epidemic and for an epidemic with carriers model. The three policies are compared and numerical examples are provided. An optimal policy is described in the situation when both isolation of infectives and immunisation of susceptibles are allowed.

Keywords

EPIDEMICEPIDEMIC WITH CARRIERSEXPECTED FUTURE SIZEOPTIMAL IMMUNISATION POLICYIMMUNISATION AND ISOLATION

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1974, pp. 494 - 511
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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