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Demographic changes and behavioural responses shape vulnerability to infectious disease outbreaks

2026-05-14

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Demographic shifts are reshaping population age structures worldwide, with implications for infectious disease dynamics. Since contact patterns, susceptibility and infectiousness often vary by age, the risk that pathogen introductions initiate a substantial outbreak depends on the population’s age distribution and associated behavioural characteristics. We develop an age-structured mathematical model to estimate t...

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Literature Corpus work: cb4a94e5-de94-5230-84f7-7e761acefea9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.11.724461

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