Abstract:This work presents a model combining the simplest communicable and non-communicable disease models. The latter is, by far, the leadingn cause of sickness and death in the World, and introduces basal heterogeneity in populations where communicable diseases evolve. The model can be interpreted as a risk-structured model, another way of accounting for population heterogeneity.Our results show that considering the non-communicable disease (in the end, heterogeneous populations) allows the communicable disease to b… Show more
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