Network information analysis reveals risk perception transmission in a behaviour-influenza dynamics system.

ABSTRACT: Influenza poses a significant public health burden worldwide. Understanding how and to what extent people would change their behaviour in response to influenza outbreaks is critical for formulating public health policies. We incorporated the information-theoretic framework into a behaviour-influenza (BI) transmission dynamics system in order to understand the effects of individual behavioural change on influenza epidemics. We showed that information transmission of risk perception played a crucial role in the spread of health-seeking behaviour throughout influenza epidemics. Here a network BI model provides a new approach for understanding the risk perception spread and human behavioural change during disease outbreaks. Our study allows simultaneous consideration of epidemiological, psycho

SUBMITTER: Liao CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206797 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature