Vaccinating Behaviour and the Dynamics of Vaccine Preventable Infections

Alberto d’Onofrio (), Piero Manfredi () and Ernesto Salinelli ()
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Alberto d’Onofrio: European Institute of Oncology, Department of Experimental Oncology
Piero Manfredi: University of Pisa, Department of Economics and Management
Ernesto Salinelli: Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Dipartimento di Studi per l’Economia e l’Impresa

A chapter in Modeling the Interplay Between Human Behavior and the Spread of Infectious Diseases, 2013, pp 267-287 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A main research area in the behavioural epidemiology (BE) of infectious diseases deals with the modelling of vaccinating behaviour under voluntary immunisation. We attempt to provide a broad overview of our research work on the subject, by separately analysing a general prevalence-based framework, where vaccine uptake is taken as a function of the relevant information used by parents to immunise their children, such as the prevalence (or incidence) of infection, of serious disease, or of vaccine associated side effects, and an imitation-based framework where behaviour perceived as optimal spreads through spontaneous communication between individuals about the benefits and cost of vaccination. We also discuss the relationships between the two modelling framework. Finally, we supply new results concerning the impact of realistic information kernels and the appearance of chaotic oscillations due to the interplay of periodic contact patterns and vaccinating behaviour.

Keywords: Hopf Bifurcation; Ordinary Differential Equation; Endemic Equilibrium; Basic Reproduction Number; Vaccine Uptake (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5474-8_17

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