Epidemics on social networks

M KUPERMAN

Papers in physics

Papers in Physics

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2013 vol. 5 p. 500031 - 5000317

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Since its rst formulations almost a century ago, mathematical models for disease spreadingcontributed to understand, evaluate and control the epidemic processes. They promoted adramatic change in how epidemiologists thought of the propagation of infectious diseases.In the last decade, when the traditional epidemiological models seemed to be exhausted,new types of models were developed. These new models incorporated concepts from graphtheory to describe and model the underlying social structure. Many of these works merelyproduced a more detailed extension of the previous results, but some others triggered acompletely new paradigm in the mathematical study of epidemic processes. In this review,we will introduce the basic concepts of epidemiology, epidemic modeling and networks, tonally provide a brief description of the most relevant results in the eld.