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Modeling Contact and Mobility Based Social Response to the Spreading of Infectious Diseases

In: Modeling the Interplay Between Human Behavior and the Spread of Infectious Diseases

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  • Nicola Perra

    (Northeastern University, Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems)

  • Alessandro Vespignani

    (Northeastern University, Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems)

Abstract

We present here a set of prototypical mechanisms aimed at modeling the social adaptation and response triggered in the population by the knowledge of the spreading of an infectious disease. We define models that couples the spreading of information and behavioral changes with the spreading of the infectious disease by considering the local and non-local prevalence-based information available to individuals in the population. The behavioral changes are modeled both as the onset of effective social distancing and contact reduction as well as changes in the mobility patterns of individuals. The defined models exhibit a rich phase space with multiple epidemic peaks and threshold behavior. In addition, we show that in specific cases the change of mobility pattern may counterintuitively enhance the disease spreading. The class of models presented here can be used in the case of data-driven computational approaches to analyze scenarios of social adaptation and behavioral change.

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  • Nicola Perra & Alessandro Vespignani, 2013. "Modeling Contact and Mobility Based Social Response to the Spreading of Infectious Diseases," Springer Books, in: Piero Manfredi & Alberto D'Onofrio (ed.), Modeling the Interplay Between Human Behavior and the Spread of Infectious Diseases, edition 127, pages 103-123, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4614-5474-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5474-8_7
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