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Identifying future disease hot spots : infectious disease vulnerability index /

"Recent high-profile outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika, have illustrated the transnational nature of infectious diseases. Countries that are most vulnerable to such outbreaks might be higher priorities for technical support. RAND created the Infectious Disease Vulnerability Index to help U.S. g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moore, Melinda, M.D (Author), Gelfeld, Bill (Author), Okunogbe, Adeyemi (Author), Paul, Christopher, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, [2016]
Series:Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1605-OSD.
Subjects:
Emerging infectious diseases > Prevention.
Communicable diseases > Prevention.
Diseases > Risk factors.
Epidemics > Political aspects.
Public health.
Communicable Diseases.
Communicable Disease Control.
Global Health.
Online Access:Connect to resource
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Figures and Tables
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Methods
  • Chapter 3. Developing a Framework to Assess Vulnerability: Framework Foundation: Seven Domains and Associated Factors
  • Assembling the Framework and Assigning Weights
  • Chapter 4. Results: Initial Results
  • Results from the Sensitivity Analysis
  • Implications of the Findings
  • Chapter 5. Conclusions and Next Steps
  • APPENDIXES
  • Abbreviations
  • Data Sources
  • Bibliography.