Systems thinking in combating infectious diseases.

Abstract:

:The transmission of infectious diseases is a dynamic process determined by multiple factors originating from disease pathogens and/or parasites, vector species, and human populations. These factors interact with each other and demonstrate the intrinsic mechanisms of the disease transmission temporally, spatially, and socially. In this article, we provide a comprehensive perspective, named as systems thinking, for investigating disease dynamics and associated impact factors, by means of emphasizing the entirety of a system's components and the complexity of their interrelated behaviors. We further develop the general steps for performing systems approach to tackling infectious diseases in the real-world settings, so as to expand our abilities to understand, predict, and mitigate infectious diseases.

journal_name

Infect Dis Poverty

authors

Xia S,Zhou XN,Liu J

doi

10.1186/s40249-017-0339-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-09-11 00:00:00

pages

144

issue

1

eissn

2095-5162

issn

2049-9957

pii

10.1186/s40249-017-0339-6

journal_volume

6

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