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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Non-pharmaceutical interventions"”.
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Modeling and responding to pandemic influenza : importance of population distributional attributes and non-pharmaceutical interventions
… to evaluate the implementation and timing of non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies such as travel restrictions, social distancing and improved hygiene. In addition, as we witnessed with the SARS outbreak in 2003, human behavior is likely to change during the course of a pandemic. We …
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Modeling reduction of pandemic influenza using pharmaceutical and non pharmaceutical interventions in a heterogeneous population
… more recent 2009-2010 H1N1 "Swine Flu" scare, pharmaceutical as well as non-pharmaceutical resources are limited in availability and effectiveness. In this thesis we apply OR methods to evaluate the effectiveness of such resources and the strategies for reducing the number of infections …
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The implementation of non pharmaceutical interventions(NPIs) in smaller to large communities and its relation to RO and R(t) during HIN1 pandemic 2009
This thesis focuses on the use of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the time of the 2009 HINI pandemic and its possible relation to RO and R(t). RO is defined as the mean number of people that a newly infected person will subsequently infect in a completely susceptible population …
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Virtual reality as complementary treatment after spinal fusion
… emphasis was placed on implementing and using non-pharmaceutical interventions to assist in the management of postoperative pain. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to implement the use of virtual reality to supplement the current postoperative care protocol to minimize the length of …
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Machine learning for social event analysis : public perceptions during COVID-19 and collective violence in South Africa
… public perception and compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions by the South African government during the pandemic in the first study. In the second longitudinal study, sentiment analysis provided an empirical evaluation of adjustment phases during the pandemic. The third study …
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Politics and pandemics: an investigation of the potential covariates in the relationship between conservative political ideology and reduced facemask wearing
… empirically shown as one of the most effective non-pharmaceutical interventions in preventing the spread of COVID-19. However, research shows that individuals identifying as politically conservative are less likely to comply with mask mandates and engage in less mask wearing. This study …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
… paper studies patients with diabetes who are non-adherent to scheduled appointments with physicians in a specialized diabetes clinic setting in Boston. I developed and introduced new and interesting ''technology comfort" measures and a "Smartphone usage" scale, to evaluate if patients would be …
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A new way to do epidemic modeling
… travel restrictions, reopening and non-pharmaceutical interventions. These frameworks can be divided broadly into the following categories: (a) compartment models which are interpretable but cannot capture complex effects and (b) agent based models which can capture varying ranges of …
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Hybrid modeling techniques to support drug-development and post-market analysis of anti-infectives
… coefficients in rabbits were used to supplement non-compartmental approaches and aid the training of a minimal signature machine learning (ML) predictive tool. Sitting at the early stage of the drug development, the ML model was developed to require easy-accessible and animal-testing free …
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Impact of lockdown on COVID-19 transmission dynamics in Botswana : a mathematical modeling study.
… Botswana imposed lockdown as one of the non-pharmaceutical interventions to mitigate the COVID-19 burden. Various mathematical models have been used in the current and previous epidemics for analysis of disease spread, forecasting and identifying trajectories as well as assessing effect …
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Structured machine learning for dynamical systems in healthcare
… pandemic. The first is to model the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the COVID-19 fatality across different countries using early data. The second is to model the temporal effect of dexamethasone (a drug) on the immune activation of severally ill COVID-19 patients. In some …
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An analysis of South Africa's health policy performance to the COVID-19 pandemic during the period March 2020 and June 2022
… areas for its efficacy. These were identified as non-pharmaceutical interventions as a vaccine, or any medical intervention was unavailable. A country-wide risk-adjusted strategy was deployed that tightened or loosened regulations depending on the level of threat the country was facing, indicated …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Lockdowns and Mask Mandates on Reducing COVID-19 Infections in Essential Worker Populations
… the disease. We further consider the effect of non-pharmaceutical intervention policies (such as mask mandates and lockdowns), incorporated in a model we term the Local-Policy SIR model. We assume mask mandates are applied only at essential locations, whereas lockdowns function only at …
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Essays in Financial Econometrics
… this method to examine the effects of different Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) on mobility and how mobility influences the transmission of Covid-19. The results reveal that the effectiveness of policy measures varies significantly depending on the demographic characteristics of different …