| Title |
Optimal Timing of Disease Transmission in an Age-Structured Population
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, August 2007
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11538-007-9238-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Timothy C. Reluga, Jan Medlock, Eric Poolman, Alison P. Galvani |
| Abstract |
It is a common medical folk-practice for parents to encourage their children to contract certain infectious diseases while they are young. This folk-practice is controversial, in part, because it contradicts the long-term public health goal of minimizing disease incidence. We study an epidemiological model of infectious disease in an age-structured population where virulence is age-dependent and show that, in some cases, the optimal behavior will increase disease transmission. This provides a rigorous justification of the concept of "endemic stability," and demonstrates that folk-practices may have been historically justified. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 25 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 8 | 30% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 15% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 11% |
| Unknown | 5 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 6 | 22% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 15% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 6 | 22% |
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