🗺️ Modeling Disease Spread: The Geography, Population, Movement (GPM) Framework
Spatial epidemiological models are deterministic or stochastic frameworks designed to investigate how spatial heterogeneities and host movement dynamics influence local and regional disease patterns. These models are essential for moving beyond homogeneous mixing assumptions and for capturing realistic geographic contexts in which infectious diseases emerge, spread, and respond to localized interventions. ──────────────────────────────────────────── 🧱 Compartmental Structure … Read more