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| Joel K KelsoSummaryAffiliation: University of Western Australia Country: Australia Publications
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Economic analysis of pandemic influenza mitigation strategies for five pandemic severity categoriesJoel K Kelso
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
BMC Public Health 13:211. 2013..This study estimates the effectiveness and total cost (from a societal perspective, with a lifespan time horizon) of a comprehensive range of social distancing and antiviral drug strategies, under a range of pandemic severity categories...
A small community model for the transmission of infectious diseases: comparison of school closure as an intervention in individual-based models of an influenza pandemicGeorge J Milne
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 3:e4005. 2008..In the absence of other evidence, modelling has been used extensively to help policy makers plan for a potential future influenza pandemic...
The impact of case diagnosis coverage and diagnosis delays on the effectiveness of antiviral strategies in mitigating pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009Joel K Kelso
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
PLoS ONE 5:e13797. 2010..Policies for diagnosis of influenza for the purposes of antiviral intervention differed markedly between and within countries, leading to differences in the timing and scale of antiviral usage...
Simulation suggests that rapid activation of social distancing can arrest epidemic development due to a novel strain of influenzaJoel K Kelso
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
BMC Public Health 9:117. 2009..We conducted simulations of a small community to determine the magnitude and timing of activation that would be necessary for social distancing interventions to arrest a future pandemic...
Developing guidelines for school closure interventions to be used during a future influenza pandemicNilimesh Halder
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
BMC Infect Dis 10:221. 2010..Computer simulation can be used to examine school closure intervention strategies in order to inform public health authorities as they refine school closure guidelines in light of experience with the A/H1N1 2009 pandemic...
Analysis of the effectiveness of interventions used during the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemicNilimesh Halder
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:168. 2010....
Cost-effective strategies for mitigating a future influenza pandemic with H1N1 2009 characteristicsNilimesh Halder
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e22087. 2011..The aim was to examine the cost-effectiveness of a range of interventions to determine the most cost-effective strategies suitable for a future pandemic with H1N1 2009 characteristics...
Vaccination strategies for future influenza pandemics: a severity-based cost effectiveness analysisJoel K Kelso
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
BMC Infect Dis 13:81. 2013..For a severe pandemic, additional rapidly activated intervention measures will be required if high mortality rates are to be avoided...
The cost effectiveness of pandemic influenza interventions: a pandemic severity based analysisGeorge J Milne
Simulation and Modelling Research Unit, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
PLoS ONE 8:e61504. 2013..Understanding how these pandemic features impact on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of alternative intervention strategies is important for pandemic planning...
