A Medication Distribution Model against Ebola

DOI

10.2991/isss-15.2015.78How to use a DOI?

Keywords

SIR model; medication distribution; AHP.

Abstract

The epidemic of Ebola which has stirred up worldwide concern calls for efforts to control the infection. We present an infection spread model to visualize the tendency of Ebola epidemic and devise a medication distribution model embedding Analytic Hierarchy Process to eradicate the spread of Ebola. Firstly, we choose Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia as target countries. Then the SIR (Susceptible, Infective, and Removal) model is developed to analyze the spread of Ebola and predict the possible future patients in the three countries. Thus we are able to calculate the total required amount of medication. Next, we adapt the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in our medication distribution model. We build an index set to evaluate the severity of countries so as to determine the exact amount of medication delivered to each country.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peigen Zou
PY  - 2015/08
DA  - 2015/08
TI  - A Medication Distribution Model against Ebola
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Social Science (isss-15)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 319
EP  - 321
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isss-15.2015.78
DO  - 10.2991/isss-15.2015.78
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