Accounting for the spread of vaccination behavior to optimize influenza vaccination programs.

ABSTRACT: Vaccination is the most efficient means of preventing influenza infection and its complications. While previous studies have considered the externalities of vaccination that arise from indirect protection against influenza infection, they have often neglected another key factor-the spread of vaccination behavior among social contacts. We modeled influenza vaccination as a socially contagious process. Our model uses a contact network that we developed based on aggregated and anonymized mobility data from the cellphone devices of ~1.8 million users in Israel. We calibrated the model to high-quality longitudinal data of weekly influenza vaccination uptake and influenza diagnoses over seven years. We demonstrate how a simple coupled-transmission model accurately captures the spatiotemporal pat

SUBMITTER: Kahana D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8177529 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature