Spatial epidemiology of networked metapopulation: An overview

Lin WANG; Xiang Li

Note that the characteristic contact rate might vary evidently in different subpopulations. As illustrated by empirical studies [122, 123] , in reality, location-specific factors are the potential drivers resulting in a substantial variation of disease incidences between populations. Inspired by this finding, Wang et al. [124, 125] introduced two categories of location-specific human contact patterns into a phenomenological reaction-commuting metapopulation model. A simple destination-driven scenario is considered first, where individual contact features are determined by the visited locations. Since the residence and the destination can be distinguished by the commuting mobility, an origin-driven scenario is also introduced, where the contacts of individuals are relevant to their subpopulations of residence. Figures 4(a) -(b) illustrate the modeling structures of these two scenarios.