A Decision-Theoretic Model of Disease Surveillance and Control and a Prototype Implementation for the Disease Influenza

摘要

This paper first describes a decision-theoretic model of disease surveillance and control. It then describes a prototype system for influenza monitoring based on the model. The decision-theoretic model connects disparate work epidemiological modelling and disease control under a uniform mathematical formulation. We expect that this model will stimulate new avenues of research in both fields.