Public Health Response to Multistate Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Associated with Prepackaged Chicken Salad, United States, 2018

Abstract

Quantifying the effect of public health actions on population health is essential when justifying sustained public health investment. Using modeling, we conservatively estimated that rapid response to a multistate foodborne outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium in the United States in 2018 potentially averted 106 cases and $715,458 in medical costs and productivity losses.

Keywords

• Salmonella
• Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
• food safety
• public health economics
• quantitative evaluation
• health impact assessment