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and creating a much greater digital divide by over-restriction of access to available information. 5. What's the use?
recall (to capture as much of the available information on the subject as possible) precision (to minimize inclusion of extraneous information-noise!
the (i) collection,(ii) collation and (iii) summarisation of available information (trends, expected and unusual developments, etc.
available information might lead to hasty decisions. Some alternatives might be disregarded altogether and the decision-makers might be tempted to focus on a particular scenario.
models can be constructed that are consistent with the available information, but such models are not unique.
The available information is consistent with a potentially infinite set of plausible models, whose implications for potential decisions may be quite diverse.
Future decisions regarding interventions should use all available information about the disease and possiibl interventions, together with current data from sensors and assays, health clinics, hospitals,
Politicians have to make decission on the basis of available information, which is often imperfect, and hence the prompt and efficiien transfer of information from the research enviroonmen into the policy environment is a critical component of effectively combating EID.
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