Author(s): HUANG Shu-qiong, WEI Sheng, YUE Li, XIANG Hao, LIU Li, LIU Li, GAN Xiu-min, XU Chuan, NIE
Pages: 402-406
Year: 2009 Issue:  4
Journal: Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
Keyword:  Epidemiology; Complex networks; Transmission dynamics; Communicable disease control;
Abstract: To discuss the application of complex networks models in preventing and controlling communicable disease, analyze and control the spread of infectious diseases by using the models and the software of complex networks based on its basic properties. Compared with conventional epidemiological approach, the complex networks theory, as a new theory, not only can describe the dynamic process of infections diseases spreading but also forecast the situation of infectious disease. The influence of the network's topology on the infections diseases transmission can be deeply understood through the research on disease spreading by its theory, so to control the spread of diseases. Complex networks theory approach can be used in epidemiological research for having much advantage compared with those conventional epidemiological approaches.