Dynamic Transmission Modeling
Open Access
- 18 September 2012
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medical Decision Making
- Vol. 32 (5), 712-721
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989x12454578
Abstract
The transmissible nature of communicable diseases is what sets them apart from other diseases modeled by health economists. The probability of a susceptible individual becoming infected at any one point in time (the force of infection) is related to the number of infectious individuals in the population, will change over time, and will feed back into the future force of infection. These nonlinear interactions produce transmission dynamics that require specific consideration when modeling an intervention that has an impact on the transmission of a pathogen. Best practices for designing and building these models are set out in this paper.This publication has 58 references indexed in Scilit:
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