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 Povertyjournal_title
Infectious diseases of povertyauthors
Xia S,Zhou XN,Liu Jdoi
10.1186/s40249-017-0339-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-09-11 00:00:00pages
144issue
1eissn
2095-5162issn
2049-9957pii
10.1186/s40249-017-0339-6journal_volume
6pub_type
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0190-1
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-019-0516-x
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pub_type: 信件
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-018-0455-y
更新日期:2018-07-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
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更新日期:2020-10-07 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0132-y
更新日期:2016-04-19 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0175-0
更新日期:2016-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-018-0498-0
更新日期:2018-12-04 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1186/s40249-018-0487-3
更新日期:2018-11-05 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-017-0285-3
更新日期:2017-03-24 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0121-1
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-08-10 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2018-03-24 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2016-03-30 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章,已发布勘误
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更新日期:2018-04-20 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-06-05 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2016-06-23 00:00:00
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journal_title:Infectious diseases of poverty
pub_type: 社论
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更新日期:2018-03-22 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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