Cost assessment of control measure for brucellosis in Jilin province, China

Juan Zhang, Zhen Jin, Li Li and Xiang-Dong Sun

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2017, vol. 104, issue C, 798-805

Abstract: In the late 1990s, the epidemic in Jilin province in China started to come back and lead to re-rising of the number of the infected human. Consequently, government is adopting standard control measures: vaccination, detection-culling and tracking-culling of sheep and so on. Due to limited government funding, which measure is the most economical is need to further investigate. In this paper, based on the transmission mechanism of brucellosis between sheep and human, we establish a dynamical model to assess these three measures. Besides the analysis of dynamical behavior of model, the economic factors are considered to estimate costs of control measures. By numerical simulation, we obtain that at present, the cost of vaccination of sheep population in Jilin province is the largest, and the tracking-culling is the smallest. For detection-culling, the theoretical cost during 20 years is largest when the detection rate is 0.4. All these provide theoretical basis and guidance for brucellosis control.

Keywords: Brucellosis; Dynamical model; Control measure; Vaccination; Culling; Cost assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960077917303703
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:chsofr:v:104:y:2017:i:c:p:798-805

DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2017.09.004

Access Statistics for this article

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals is currently edited by Stefano Boccaletti and Stelios Bekiros

More articles in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thayer, Thomas R. ().