Five challenges for spatial epidemic models

oleh: Steven Riley, Ken Eames, Valerie Isham, Denis Mollison, Pieter Trapman

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Elsevier 2015-03-01

Deskripsi

Infectious disease incidence data are increasingly available at the level of the individual and include high-resolution spatial components. Therefore, we are now better able to challenge models that explicitly represent space. Here, we consider five topics within spatial disease dynamics: the construction of network models; characterising threshold behaviour; modelling long-distance interactions; the appropriate scale for interventions; and the representation of population heterogeneity.