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Author Manheim, David.

Title Improving decision support for infectious disease prevention and control : aligning models and other tools with policymakers' needs / David Manheim, Margaret Chamberlin, Osonde A. Osoba, Raffaele Vardavas, Melinda Moore.

Imprint Santa Monica, California : Rand Corporation, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 42 pages) : color illustrations.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series [Research report] ; RR-1576-OSD
Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1576-OSD.
Note "National Defense Research Institute."
"Prepared for the office of the secretary of defense."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-42).
Contents Decision support: a collaborative endeavor -- Decision support using models -- Nonmodeling decision-support approaches -- Alignment between policy questions and decision-support approaches -- Recommendations and discussion.
Summary "This report describes decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, that are relevant to infectious disease prevention, detection, and response and aligns these tools with real-world policy questions that the tools can help address. The intended audience includes technical experts - for example, modelers and subject-matter experts - and the policymakers that those experts can support. On one hand, this overview should help modelers and other technical experts understand the questions that policymakers will raise and the decisions they must make. On the other hand, many policymakers can benefit from a basic understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the different tools that may inform their decisions. This report describes the characteristics, requirements, uses, applicability, and limitations of three classes of theory-based models (population, microsimulation, agent-based simulation) and two classes of statistical models (regression-based and machine-learning), as well as several complementary nonmodeling decision-support approaches. The report then aligns all of these tools and approaches with a set of real-world policy questions. Finally, based on a review of published literature, an assessment of the different models and nonmodeling approaches, and recent experiences (such as the 2009 influenza pandemic), the authors recommend nine best practices for using modeling and decision-support tools to inform policymaking"-- Back cover.
Subject Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
Communicable diseases -- Control.
Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- International cooperation.
Communicable diseases -- Government policy -- United States.
Communicable diseases.
Communicable Diseases
Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control
Epidemics -- prevention & control
Maladies infectieuses -- Prévention.
Maladies infectieuses -- Lutte contre.
Maladies infectieuses -- Prévention -- Coopération internationale.
Maladies infectieuses -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis.
Maladies infectieuses.
COMPUTERS -- Data Modeling & Design.
Communicable diseases
Communicable diseases -- Control
Communicable diseases -- Government policy
Communicable diseases -- Prevention
Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- International cooperation
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Added Author Chamberlin, Margaret.
Osoba, Osonde.
Vardavas, Raffaele.
Moore, Melinda.
National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center.
Other Form: Electronic version: Manheim, David. Improving decision support for infectious disease prevention and control : aligning models and other tools with policymaker's needs . Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2016 (OCoLC)954270876
ISBN 9780833095503 (pbk.)
0833095501
9780833096302
0833096303
Standard No. AU@ 000060206122
AU@ 000061154100
GBVCP 1008667196

 
    
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