DocumentCode
107718
Title
Infectious Agents in Heterogeneous Systems: When Friends Matter
Author
Small, Martha
Author_Institution
Sch. of Math. & Stat., Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Volume
14
Issue
1
fYear
2014
fDate
Firstquarter 2014
Firstpage
58
Lastpage
74
Abstract
Many real world diseases are transmitted through close personal contact. An accurate model of such transmission depends on an accurate model of the complex web of close personal interactions in the community. We review recent work in this area, argue that it is important to take this structure into account and demonstrate several examples where doing so yields nontrivial results for the prediction and control of disease transmission.
Keywords
complex networks; differential equations; diseases; physiological models; complex network topologies; disease transmission; heterogeneous systems; infectious agents; low-dimensional differential equations; Communities; Diseases; Human factors; Infectious diseases; Medical services; Prediction methods; Social factors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Circuits and Systems Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1531-636X
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCAS.2013.2296418
Filename
6744688
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