Publication, Teaching Resource
2017
Publicly Available Software Tools for Decision-Makers During an Emergent Epidemic
Epidemics and emerging infectious diseases are becoming an increasing threat to global populations-challenging public health …
Epidemics and emerging infectious diseases are becoming an increasing threat to global populations-challenging public health practitioners, decision makers and researchers to plan, prepare, identify and respond to outbreaks in near real-timeframes. The aim of this research is to evaluate the range of public domain and freely available software epidemic modelling tools. Twenty freely utilizable software tools underwent assessment of software usability, utility and key functionalities. Stochastic and agent based tools were found to be highly…
Global
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Infectious Diseases
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Mathematical Models
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Dynamic Transmission
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Dynamic Simulation
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Health Systems
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Climate/Environment
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Health/Medicine
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Science/Technology
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Graduate
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Doctoral
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Professional
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Quantitative Literacy