Homo-psychologicus: Reactionary behavioural aspects of epidemics

Homo-psychologicus: Reactionary behavioural aspects of epidemics

We formulate an in silico model of pathogen avoidance mechanism and investigate its impact on defensive behavioural measures (e.g., spontaneous social exclusions and distancing, crowd avoidance and voluntary vaccination adaptation). In particular, we use SIR(B)S (e.g., susceptible-infected-recovered...

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Main Authors: Alhaji Cherif, Kamal Barley, Marcel Hurtado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-03-01
Series:Epidemics
Subjects:
Behavioural change
Epidemic spreading
Disease transmission
Reactive response
Infectious disease
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436515000857

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