This article studies the optimal intertemporal allocation of resources devoted to prevention deterministic infectious diseases that admit an endemic steady-state. Under general assumptions, control problem is shown be formally similar growth model with endogenous discounting. The dynamics then depends on interplay between epidemiological characteristics disease, labor productivity and degree in...

HIV-1 Infected Russian Children and Adolescents – a 24 Week Study Hedy Teppler, MD; Andrey Shuldyakov, MD; Natalia Gankina, PhD; Valeriy Kulagin, PhD; Firaya Nagimova, PhD; Tatiana Shimonova, PhD; Dmitriy Sonin, PhD; Vladimir Sotnikov, MD; Natalia Zakharova, MD; Brenda Homony, MS; Deng Wang, PhD; Grigoriy Moshkovich, MD; Merck and Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ; Regional Center for Preventio...

;rhe di~cove!y of antibiotics having an highly effective and specific action on th~ rickettsial diseases has greatly' deprived of importance the formerly outstanding prevention of these diseases. however, the prevention of typhus: fever, the single rickettsiosis to be purely human and the nly. one to: be epidemic, remains an important problem. the methods of. prevention.m the mveterate foci 'ca...