| Literature DB >> 22990086 |
Richard Pitman1, David Fisman2, Gregory S Zaric3, Maarten Postma4, Mirjam Kretzschmar5, John Edmunds6, Marc Brisson7.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22990086 DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12454578
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Decis Making ISSN: 0272-989X Impact factor: 2.583