VACCINATION POLICIES FOR CHAOS REDUCTION IN CHILDHOOD EPIDEMICS

Authors
PICCARDI C LAZZARIS S
Citation
C. Piccardi et S. Lazzaris, VACCINATION POLICIES FOR CHAOS REDUCTION IN CHILDHOOD EPIDEMICS, IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering, 45(5), 1998, pp. 591-595
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Biomedical
Journal title
IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189294
Volume
45
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
591 - 595
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9294(1998)45:5<591:VPFCRI>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of controlling a childhood epidemic d escribed by a susceptible-infective-recovered (SIR) model. The epidemi c has a chaotic behavior, with large outbreaks entailing considerable costs. The control problem is set up to perform a chaos reduction, nam ely to yield a beneficial compression of the outbreaks of infectives, A simple class of vaccination policies is considered with this aim.