TY - JOUR AU - Alawieh, Ali AU - Sabra, Zahraa AU - Langley, E. Farris AU - Bizri, Abdul Rahman AU - Hamadeh, Randa AU - Zaraket, Fadi A. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/25 TI - Assessing the impact of the Lebanese National Polio Immunization Campaign using a population-based computational model JO - BMC Public Health SP - 902 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - After the re-introduction of poliovirus to Syria in 2013, Lebanon was considered at high transmission risk due to its proximity to Syria and the high number of Syrian refugees. However, after a large-scale national immunization initiative, Lebanon was able to prevent a potential outbreak of polio among nationals and refugees. In this work, we used a computational individual-simulation model to assess the risk of poliovirus threat to Lebanon prior and after the immunization campaign and to quantitatively assess the healthcare impact of the campaign and the required standards that need to be maintained nationally to prevent a future outbreak. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4909-0 DO - 10.1186/s12889-017-4909-0 ID - Alawieh2017 ER -