Modeling Disease Spread and Control

• Main Author: Tariq Halasa (auth)
• Other Authors: Salome Durr (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; disease spread; simulation model; decision making; mathematical model; disease control; network analysis
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Mathematical models are useful tools to understand the epidemiology and agent-host interaction of diseases. They are developed and applied since over a century, but with increasing computer capacity, they become increasingly prominent as part of evidence based decision making. Mathematical models ar...