The effect of host population heterogeneity on epidemic outbreaks

• Published in: Mathematics in applied sciences and engineering Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 1 - 35
• Main Authors: Bootsma, Martin, Chan, Danny, Diekmann, Odo, Inaba, Hisashi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Western Libraries 01.03.2024
• Subjects: contact structures; epidemic outbreak model; final size; herd immunity threshold; Kermack-McKendrick; static heterogeneity

In the first part of this paper, we review old and new results about the influence of host population heterogeneity on (various characteristics of) epidemic outbreaks. In the second part we highlight a modelling issue that so far has received little attention: how do contact patterns, and hence tran...