Advancement of Health

MIDAS
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The advancement of health information technology has led to the introduction of numerous software packages that are meant to help physicians to cope with infectious diseases. The Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) entails the collaboration of informatics and research groups that come up with computational models, which show the interaction between disease agents, their hosts, how illnesses spread, response strategies, and prediction systems. Health professionals, researchers, and policymakers use MIDAS to understand infectious diseases and respond to them appropriately. The paper analyzes two articles that portray the significance of MIDAS in the healthcare sector.
“The Research and Development Process for Multiscale Models of Infectious Disease Systems” by Winston Garira asserts that MIDAS are complex systems. The article clarifies that MIDAS makes it possible to study physical, energy, water, chemical, food, artificial, and infectious disease systems. As such, when scientists focus on the contributions of all the above complex systems to a particular disease pathogen, they come up with the best suggestions on how to eliminate it to foster public health. The MIDAS is crucial since it incorporates multiscale modeling that combines various disciplines, such as epidemiology, immunology, mathematical modeling, public health research, environmental science, ecology, population biology, and environmental science (Garira, 2020). Consequently, the application of technology in the health sector facilitates the development of different MIDAS that enable health professionals to know how to respond to a specific infectious disease.
“Mechanistic Models of Infectious Disease and Their Impact on Public Health” by Justin Lessler and Derek Cummings shows the importance of MIDAS in eliminating various diseases. In particular, researchers claim that mechanistic models are different from the traditional statistical methods, such as regression, because their structure leads to explicit hypotheses that indicate several ways of eradicating a public health issue (Lessler & Cummings, 2016). For example, Ronald Ross developed a mathematical model from 1908 to 1921, which signi...