The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted travel behaviours due to the need for movement
restrictions. The restrictions adversely affected various aspects of health and the economy …

A generalized pathway model, with time-dependent parameters, is applied to describe the
mortality curves of the COVID-19 disease for several countries that exhibit multiple waves of …

The evolving availability of health information on social media, regardless of its credibility,
raises several questions about its impact on our health decisions and social behaviors …

Italy implemented two-dose universal varicella vaccination (UVV) regionally from 2003 to
2013 and nationally from 2017 onwards. Our objective was to analyze regional disparities in …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic represents the most unprecedented global challenge
in recent times. As the global community attempts to manage the pandemic in the long term …

We present the software ModInterv as an informatics tool to monitor, in an automated and
user-friendly manner, the evolution and trend of COVID-19 epidemic curves, both for cases …

Statistical modeling of epidemiological curves to capture the course of epidemic processes
and to implement a signaling system for detecting significant changes in the process is a …

COVID-19 has impacted health systems and communities. The restrictions imposed during
the COVID-19 outbreak to mitigate community transmission of the virus led to the rapid …

Background The COVID 19 pandemic has had its impact on tuberculosis notification,
incidence, and management, particularly in the context of rifampicin-resistant TB. We set out …

Mathematical modeling is a tool used for understanding diseases dynamics. The discrete-
time model is an especial case in modeling that satisfactorily describes the epidemiological …