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From: Optimizing strategies for population-based chlamydia infection screening among young women: an age-structured system dynamics approach

Fig. 1

An age-dependent SIER Model for CT transmission and screening. Each box (compartment) represents a particular state that the total population is stratified into. For instance, S standards for the susceptible population subgroup. The solid lines indicate transitions due to natural disease progression and standard therapeutic intervention; and the dashed lines indicate additional transitions due to screening. With the system dynamics, each subpopulation size may fluctuate over time. Note that this is an age-structured model, which implies that the fluctuation of each subpopulation size is also age dependent, i.e.,many transition rates are age-dependent such as β

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