scholarly journals Optimal control and cost-effective analysis of an age-structured emerging infectious disease model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiqi Jia ◽  
Junyuan Yang ◽  
Xuezhi Li
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Optimal Control ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Emerging Infectious Disease ◽  
Infectious Disease Model ◽  
Age Structured ◽  
Effective Analysis

Optimal control for a susceptible-infectedrecovered infectious disease model

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellina Grigorieva ◽  
Evgenii Khailov ◽  
Andrei Korobeinikov
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Optimal Control ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Infectious Disease Model

scholarly journals Obesity as an "infectious" disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 534-537
Author(s):  
Daria Żuraw ◽  
Paulina Oleksa ◽  
Mateusz Sobczyk
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
Obese People ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Infectious Disease Model ◽  
The One

Introduction: Obesity has been recognized as a global epidemic by the WHO, followed by a wealth of empirical evidence supporting its contagiousness. However, the dynamics of the spread of obesity between individuals are rarely studied.  A distinguishing feature of the obesity epidemic is that it is driven by a process of social contagion that cannot be perfectly described by the infectious disease model. There is also social discrimination in the obesity epidemic. Social discrimination against obese people plays quite different roles in two cases: on the one hand, when obesity cannot be eliminated, social discrimination can reduce the number of obese people; on the other hand, when obesity is eradicable, social discrimination can cause it to explode.(1)   Materiał and methods: A literature analysis on obesity epidemic was carried out within the Pubmed, Google scholar and Research Gate platform. The following keywords were used in serach: obesity, epidemy, children, body max index.    Purpose of the work: The aim of the following analysis is to present an obesity as an infectious disease. The steadily increasing percentage of obese people, including children, shows that there is an obesity epidemic. This is the phenomenon of social contagion, which partially explains the concept of homophily, which involves the grouping of people with similar characteristics. Potential explanations are also provided by sharing a living environment with similar access to certain foods and similar opportunities for physical activity, which defines the occurrence of analogous health habits

Improving Computational Models and Practices

2012 ◽  
pp. 432-455
Author(s):  
Iain Barrass ◽  
Joanna Leng
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Computational Steering ◽  
Infectious Disease Model

Since infectious diseases pose a significant risk to human health many countries aim to control their spread. Public health bodies faced with a disease threat must understand the disease’s progression and its transmission process. From this understanding it is possible to evaluate public health interventions intended to decrease impacts on the population. Commonly, contingency planning has been achieved through epidemiological studies and the use of relatively simple models. However, computational methods increasingly allow more complex, and potentially more realistic, simulations of various scenarios of the control of the spread of disease. However, understanding computational results from more sophisticated models can pose considerable challenges. A case study of a system combining a complex infectious disease model with interactive visualization and computational steering tools shows some of the opportunities this approach offers to infectious disease control.

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