Vaccination policies for chaos reduction in childhood epidemics.
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Abstract
This paper considers the problem of controlling a childhood epidemic described by a susceptible-infective-recovered (SIR) model. The epidemic has a chaotic behavior, with large outbreaks entailing considerable costs. The control problem is set up to perform a chaos reduction, namely to yield a beneficial compression of the outbreaks of infectives. A simple class of vaccination policies is considered with this aim.
Medical subject headings
- Disease Outbreaks
- Health Policy
- Infections
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Vaccination