Behavioral Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: An Overview

Chris Bauch (), Alberto d’Onofrio () and Piero Manfredi ()
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Chris Bauch: University of Guelph, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Alberto d’Onofrio: European Institute of Oncology, Department of Experimental Oncology
Piero Manfredi: Pisa University, Department of Economics and Management

A chapter in Modeling the Interplay Between Human Behavior and the Spread of Infectious Diseases, 2013, pp 1-19 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The focus of the growing discipline of behavioral epidemiology (BE) of infectious diseases is on individual behavior as a key determinant of infection trajectories. This overview departs from the central, but static, role of human behavior in traditional mathematical models of infection to motivate the importance of including behavior into epidemiological models. Our aim is threefold. First, we attempt to motivate the historical and cultural background underpinning the BE revolution, focusing on the issue of rational opposition to vaccines as a natural endpoint of the changed relation between man and disease in modern industrialized countries. Second, we review those contributions, from both mathematical epidemiology and economics, that forerun the current “epidemic” of studies on BE. Last, we offer a more detailed overview of the current epidemic phase of BE studies and, still motivated by the issue of immunization choices, introduce some baseline ideas and models.

Keywords: Nash Equilibrium; Endemic Equilibrium; Vaccine Coverage; Basic Reproduction Number; Herd Immunity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5474-8_1

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