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TROPICAL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed6030141
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transmission coefficient; infectious disease dynamics; compartmental model; parameter estimation; epidemic modeling
Obtaining reasonable estimates for transmission rates when using mathematical models to study infectious diseases is challenging due to factors such as environmental conditions, social behaviors, and public health interventions affecting the variability of these rates during outbreaks. Analytical estimates of time-dependent transmission rates can capture the dynamics of the problem better, showing large variations depending on available data and other epidemiological parameters. Time-dependent estimation of transmission rates can help understand disease progression more accurately.
Obtaining reasonable estimates for transmission rates from observed data is a challenge when using mathematical models to study the dynamics of ?infectious? diseases, like Ebola. Most models assume the transmission rate of a contagion either does not vary over time or change in a fixed pre-determined adhoc ways. However, these rates do vary during an outbreak due to multitude of factors such as environmental conditions, social behaviors, and public-health interventions deployed to control the disease, which are in-part guided by changing size of an outbreak. We derive analytical estimates of time-dependent transmission rate for an epidemic in terms of either incidence or prevalence using a standard mathematical SIR-type epidemic model. We illustrate applicability of our method by applying data on various public health problems, including infectious diseases (Ebola, SARS, and Leishmaniasis) and social issues (obesity and alcohol drinking) to compute transmission rates over time. We show that time-dependent transmission rate estimates can have a large variation, depending on the type of available data and other epidemiological parameters. Time-dependent estimation of transmission rates captures the dynamics of the problem better and can be utilized to understand disease progression more accurately.
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