Interacting particle models on the impact of spatially heterogeneous human behavioral factors on dynamics of infectious diseases.

ABSTRACT: Human behaviors have non-negligible impacts on spread of contagious disease. For instance, large-scale gathering and high mobility of population could lead to accelerated disease transmission, while public behavioral changes in response to pandemics may effectively reduce contacts and suppress the peak of the outbreak. In order to understand how spatial characteristics like population mobility and clustering interplay with epidemic outbreaks, we formulate a stochastic-statistical environment-epidemic dynamic system (SEEDS) via an agent-based biased random walk model on a two-dimensional lattice. The "popularity" and "awareness" variables are taken into consideration to capture human natural and preventive behavioral factors, which are assumed to guide and bias agent movement in a combined

SUBMITTER: Xiong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11335169 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature