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SUBMITTER: Perrings C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4366543 | biostudies-other | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Perrings Charles C Castillo-Chavez Carlos C Chowell Gerardo G Daszak Peter P Fenichel Eli P EP Finnoff David D Horan Richard D RD Kilpatrick A Marm AM Kinzig Ann P AP Kuminoff Nicolai V NV Levin Simon S Morin Benjamin B Smith Katherine F KF Springborn Michael M
EcoHealth 20140919 4
Mathematical epidemiology, one of the oldest and richest areas in mathematical biology, has significantly enhanced our understanding of how pathogens emerge, evolve, and spread. Classical epidemiological models, the standard for predicting and managing the spread of infectious disease, assume that contacts between susceptible and infectious individuals depend on their relative frequency in the population. The behavioral factors that underpin contact rates are not generally addressed. There is, h ...[more]