Research Catalog

Title

Improving decision support for infectious disease prevention and control : aligning models and other tools with policymaker's needs / David Manheim, Margaret Chamberlin, Osonde A. Osoba, Raffaele Vardavas, Melinda Moore.

Author

Manheim, David

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Chamberlin, Margaret (Policy analyst)
• Osoba, Osonde
• Vardavas, Raffaele
• Moore, Melinda, M.D.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center, issuing body.
• United States. Department of Defense, sponsoring body.

Description

viii, 42 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

"This report describes decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, that are relevant to infectious disease prevention, detection, and response and aligns these tools with real-world policy questions that the tools can help address. The intended audience includes technical experts - for example, modelers and subject-matter experts - and the policymakers that those experts can support. On one hand, this overview should help modelers and other technical experts understand the questions that policymakers will raise and the decisions they must make. On the other hand, many policymakers can benefit from a basic understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the different tools that may inform their decisions. This report describes the characteristics, requirements, uses, applicability, and limitations of three classes of theory-based models (population, microsimulation, agent-based simulation) and two classes of statistical models (regression-based and machine-learning), as well as several complementary nonmodeling decision-support approaches. The report then aligns all of these tools and approaches with a set of real-world policy questions. Finally, based on a review of published literature, an assessment of the different models and nonmodeling approaches, and recent experiences (such as the 2009 influenza pandemic), the authors recommend nine best practices for using modeling and decision-support tools to inform policymaking"--Back cover.

Series Statement

[Research report] ; RR-1576-OSD

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1576-OSD.

Subject

• Communicable diseases > Prevention
• Communicable diseases > Control
• Communicable diseases > Prevention > International cooperation
• Communicable diseases > Government policy > United States
• Communicable diseases > Government policy
• United States

Note

• "National Defense Research Institute."
• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-42).

Contents

Decision support: a collaborative endeavor -- Decision support using models -- Nonmodeling decision-support approaches -- Alignment between policy questions and decision-support approaches -- Recommendations and discussion.

Call Number

JBF 17-297

ISBN

• 9780833095503
• 0833095501

LCCN

2016448346

OCLC

953631312

Author

Manheim, David, author.

Title

Improving decision support for infectious disease prevention and control : aligning models and other tools with policymaker's needs / David Manheim, Margaret Chamberlin, Osonde A. Osoba, Raffaele Vardavas, Melinda Moore.

Publisher

Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Research report] ; RR-1576-OSD

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1576-OSD.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-42).

Added Author

Chamberlin, Margaret (Policy analyst), author.

Osoba, Osonde, author.

Vardavas, Raffaele, author.

Moore, Melinda, M.D., author.

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center, issuing body.

United States. Department of Defense, sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

JBF 17-297