Sentence examples for epidemic interventions from inspiring English sources

Impact of epidemic interventions is usually quantified by mathematical models.

Because experimental approaches to epidemic interventions are often impractical, and in some cases unethical, mathematical models can provide otherwise unobtainable insights on the spread and control of disease.

In this paper, we use both of these tools to assess the effects of epidemic interventions in closed health-care facilities.

For prevention of a resurgence of the epidemic, intervention programs must be tailored to the current needs of these vulnerable young women.

First, in contexts of concentrated HIV epidemics, interventions targeted groups most at risk: ten studies focused on sex workers [ 14, 56, 59, 63– 67, 67– 70], four on men who have sex with men (MSM) [ 57, 63, 69, 72], and one study [ 39] focused on local heterosexual men whose high levels of alcohol consumption were found to be putting their sexual health at risk [ 73].

Reliable measurement of HIV incidence (the rate of new infections) is essential for monitoring the epidemic, assessing interventions and planning studies.

Although this study casts doubt on the hypothesis that younger school-age children lead influenza epidemic waves, interventions targeting young children may still have a significant impact on the size of the epidemic.

Because frequent travelers play a role mainly in the early stages of an epidemic, targeting interventions to these persons is unlikely to be an effective control strategy because such a plan would have to be in place almost immediately.

However, as the epidemic and intervention situations differ across diverse localities, intervention and prevention measures should be tailored differently as well.

"There is no doubt that there is an epidemic of intervention," says Lokugamage. "But medical students now only see very little normality.

To reverse the obesity epidemic early intervention programs are thought to be an opportunity.