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The economical control of infectious diseases (pdf 450kb)

Infections and actions to prevent or cure infections have costs. Individuals balance the parts of these different costs that they control.

Government policy should balance these costs for society taking into account individuals' behavior. To do so requires a strategy combining preventive and curative interventions.

 

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