Public avoidance and epidemics: Insights from an economic model

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-119

  Chen, Frederick ^a   Jiang, Miaohua ^a   Rabidoux, Scott ^a   Robinson, Stephen ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic epidemiology; Infectious diseases; Mathematical modeling; Saturating contact rate

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953060827     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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