Optimal control of an epidemic through educational campaigns

In this work we study the best strategy for educational campaigns during the outbreak of an epidemic. Assuming that the epidemic is described by the simplified SIR model and that the total time of the campaign is limited due to budget, we consider two possible scenarios. In the first scenari...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cesar Castilho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Texas State University 2006-10-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
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Online Access:http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2006/125/abstr.thml