Sentence examples for population epidemics from inspiring English sources

In a New England Journal article last month, Dr. Landers listed forces driving health care into the home: the aging population, "epidemics" of chronic diseases, technological advances, health care consumerism and rapidly escalating health costs.

EPP Classic is used when the HIV epidemic rises and then settles into a stable prevalence plateau of the type commonly seen in sub-Saharan African or key population epidemics.

In the HSCIC report, gout is the strongest contender for a returning Victorian disease – it may well be linked to an ageing population, epidemic obesity and excess alcohol consumption; 70% of cases are in the over 60s.

The HCW epidemic coincided with the general population epidemic if the patient-to-HCW infections variable was minimized (H/P = 0).

Because we simulate a disease with a finite duration on a finite and non-renewing population, epidemic extinction always occurs in finite time.

Increasing H/P alone shifted the HCW epidemic such that it preceded the general population epidemic and amplified peak absenteeism by as much as 1.4 for the base case.

Transmission from HCWs to patients was assumed negligible compared with other sources of infection for the general population, and the general population epidemic was independent of transmission dynamics within the HCW population.

We assumed that all persons were susceptible to the pandemic virus and that the general population epidemic occurred as a single wave after introduction of a single infectious case.

In natural populations, epidemics provide opportunities to look for intense natural selection on genes coding for life history and immune or other physiological traits.

The disease propagation is described by a SIRS (susceptible plus infected plus recovered populations) epidemic model.

The disease propagation is described by an SEIR (susceptible plus infected plus infectious plus removed populations) epidemic model.