TY - JFULL AU - Kang-Hung Yang and Jin-Yuan Hsu PY - 2012/8/ TI - A New SIR-based Model for Influenza Epidemic T2 - International Journal of Health and Medical Engineering SP - 700 EP - 706 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1303 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 67, 2012 N2 - In recent years, several severe large-scale influenza outbreaks happened in many countries, such as SARS in 2005 or H1N1 in 2009. Those influenza Epidemics have greatly impacts not only on people-s life and health, but medical systems in different countries. Although severe diseases are more experienced, they are not fully controlled. Governments have different policies to control the spreads of diseases. However, those policies have both positive and negative social or economical influence on people and society. Therefore, it is necessary and essential to develop an appropriate model for evaluations of policies. Consequently, a proper measure can be implemented to confront the diseases. The main goal of this study is to develop a SIR-based model for the further evaluations of the candidate policies during the influenza outbreaks. ER -