The Impacts of Medical Resources on Emerging Self-Limiting Infectious Diseases
Applied Sciences
; 12(9):4255, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1837989
ABSTRACT
The spread of emerging self-limiting infectious diseases is closely related to medical resources. This paper introduces the concept of safe medical resources, i.e., the minimum medical resources that are needed to prevent the overburden of medical resources, and explores the impacts of medical resources on the spread of emerging self-limiting infectious diseases. The results showed that when the isolation rate of hospitalized patients who have mild infections is low, increasing the isolation rate of patients with severe infections requires safe more medical resources. On the contrary, when the isolation rate of hospitalized patients with mild infections is at a high level, increasing the isolation rate of patients with severe infections results in a decrease in safe medical resources. Furthermore, when the isolation rates of patients with mild and severe infections increase simultaneously, safe medical resources decrease gradually. That is to say, when the medical resources are at a low level, it is more necessary to improve the isolation rates of infected individuals so as to avoid the phenomenon of overburdened medical resources and control the spread of emerging infectious diseases. In addition, overwhelmed medical resources increase the number of deaths. Meanwhile, for different emerging self-limiting infectious diseases, as long as the recovery periods are the same, safe medical resources also remain the same.
Sciences: Comprehensive Works; self-limiting; emerging infectious diseases; SEIHR model; overwhelmed medical resources; isolation rate; numerical simulation; Infectious diseases; Population; Monte Carlo simulation; COVID-19 vaccines; Ventilators; Constraining; Medical phenomena; Infections; Pandemics; Epidemics; Hospitals; Swine flu; Low level; Patients; Immunization; Coronaviruses; Hospitalization; Disease transmission; United States--US
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Databases of international organizations
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ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Language:
English
Journal:
Applied Sciences
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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