Epidemiological models with prevalence dependent endogenous self-protection measure

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Kassa, Semu

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Author list: Kassa SM, Ouhinou A

Publisher: Elsevier

Place: NEW YORK

Publication year: 2011

Journal: Mathematical Biosciences (0025-5564)

Journal acronym: MATH BIOSCI

Volume number: 229

Issue number: 1

Start page: 41

End page: 49

Number of pages: 9

ISSN: 0025-5564

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

A simple mathematical model for human disease epidemics that takes the human learning behaviour and self-protective measures into account is proposed and investigated. We have analysed the effect of endogenous self-protective measures with respect to the prevalence level of the disease and conversely. In the model it is assumed that people start reacting against contracting a disease with self-protective measures whenever they are informed about the disease and when the burden of the disease is in a recognizable stage. It is shown that increasing the average effectiveness of self-protective measures is more important in decreasing the prevalence of a disease than increasing the proportion of individuals in a population into which awareness is created. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords

behaviour change, Dynamical systems, epidemiological models, Infectious diseases

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