Abstract
Age is one of the most important characteristics in the modeling of populations and infectious diseases. Because age groups frequently mix heterogeneously it may be appropriate to include age structure in epidemiological models. While there are other aspects of heterogeneity in disease transmission models, such as behavioral and spatial heterogeneity, age structure is one of the most important aspects of heterogeneity in disease modeling.
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Brauer, F., Castillo-Chavez, C., Feng, Z. (2019). Disease Transmission Models with Age Structure. In: Mathematical Models in Epidemiology. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 69. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9828-9_13
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