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A better "Meltzer" model

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Controlling Infectious Diseases
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Public health policy
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Policy dynamics
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What do policy makers want from modellers?
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A better "Meltzer" model
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A model that includes the transmission process
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A model that is equally simple to apply in practice
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Snapshots and linear models may be dangerously misleading
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What kinds of tools would be useful for policy modellers?
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Cost effectiveness of interventions
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Clear statements of findings and their signficance
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Don't like black box models
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Flexibility to engage constructively at short notice
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Guidance on choices across diseases
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Help policy makers to ask the right questions
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Help to ground their intuitions in sound evidential reasoning
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Program planning tools for decision makers
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Quantative answers to things that they know qualitive
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Richer understanding of dynamics
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Sensitivity to other dimensions of policy choices
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