title: A double-risk monitoring and movement restriction policy for Ebola entry screening at airports in the United States.
abstract: This paper provides an alternative policy for Ebola entry screening at airports in the United States. This alternative policy considers a social contact tracing (SCT) risk level, in addition to the current health risk level used by the CDC. The performances of both policies are compared based on the scenarios that occur and the expected cost associated with implementing such policies. Sensitivity analysis is performed to identify conditions under which one policy dominates the other policy. This analysis takes into account that the alternative policy requires additional data collection, which is balanced by a more cost-effective allocation of resources.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States. Electronic address: shj@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Sheldon H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States. Electronic address: geyu3@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Ge
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States. Electronic address: jokela@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Janet A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jokela
mesh_terms: D059028:Airports; D003625:Data Collection; D058872:Epidemics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011640:Public Policy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Cost analysis; Ebola screening; Public health policy