Information and communication technologies are not value-neutral tools that reflect reality; they privilege some forms of action, and they limit others.
A critical investigation into computational models developed for studying the spread of communicable disease is presented.
We present a technical framework designed and implemented at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control for computer supported outbreak detection.
Experiments using a microsimulation platform show that vaccination against pandemic H1N1 influenza is highly cost-effective.
This article presents a spatially explicit microsimulation model that uses official anonymized register data collected from all individuals living in Sweden.