Titre : | Planning for the Control of Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) in Los Angeles County and the United States. (2011) |
Auteurs : | Dennis-L CHAO ; Dee-Ann BAGWELL ; Nicole-E BASTA ; Brandon DEAN ; Melizabeth HALLORAN ; Ira-Mjr LONGINI ; MATRAJT (Laura) : USA. Department of Applied Mathematics. University of Washington. Seattle. WA. ; OIULFSTAD (Brit) : USA. Acute Communicable Disease Control Program. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Los Angeles. CA. ; Jonathan-D SUGIMOTO ; Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases. Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Seattle. WA. USA ; Emergency Preparedness and Response Program. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Los Angeles. CA. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 173, n° 10, 2011) |
Pagination : | 1121-1130 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Planification ; Contrôle ; Surveillance ; Prévention maladie transmissible ; Maladie contagieuse ; Homme ; Vaccin ; Prévention santé ; Vaccination ; Epidémiologie ; Amérique ; Virose ; Infection ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS qmDpR0x7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Mathematical and computer models can provide guidance to public health officials by projecting the course of an epidemic and evaluating control measures. The authors built upon an existing collaboration between an academic research group and the Los Angeles County, California, Department of Public Health to plan for and respond to the first and subsequent years of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) circulation. The use of models allowed the authors to 1) project the timing and magnitude of the epidemic in Los Angeles County and the continental United States ; 2) predict the effect of the influenza mass vaccination campaign that began in October 2009 on the spread of pandemic H1N1 in Los Angeles County and the continental United States ; and 3) predict that a third wave of pandemic influenza in the winter or spring of 2010 was unlikely to occur. The close collaboration between modelers and public health officials during pandemic H1 N1 spread in the fall of 2009 helped Los Angeles County officials develop a measured and appropriate response to the unfolding pandemic and establish reasonable goals for mitigation of pandemic H1N1. |