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Song Y, Shim E. Cost-effectiveness of the adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine for older adults in South Korea. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2024; 20:2348124. [PMID: 38714332 PMCID: PMC11085998 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2024.2348124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024] Open
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South Korea's National Immunization Program administers the quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) to manage seasonal influenza, with a particular focus on the elderly. After reviewing the safety and immune response triggered by the adjuvanted QIV (aQIV) in individuals aged 65 and older, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in Korea approved its use. However, the extensive impact of aQIV on public health is yet to be fully understood. This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of replacing QIV with aQIV in South Korean adults aged 65 years and older. A dynamic transmission model, calibrated with national influenza data, was applied to compare the influence of aQIV and QIV on older adults and the broader population throughout a single influenza season. This study considered both the direct and indirect effects of vaccination on the elderly. We derived the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) from quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and costs incurred, validated through a probabilistic sensitivity analysis with 5,000 simulations. Findings suggest that transitioning to aQIV from QIV in the elderly would be cost-effective, particularly if aQIV's efficacy reaches or exceeds 56.1%. With an ICER of $29,267/QALY, considerably lower than the $34,998/QALY willingness-to-pay threshold, aQIV presents as a cost-effective option. Thus, implementing aQIV with at least 56.1% efficacy is beneficial from both financial and public health perspectives in mitigating seasonal influenza in South Korea.
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- Youngji Song
- Department of Mathematics, Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mathematics, Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Okuno H, Satoh H, Arai S, Suzuki M, Kikkawa T. Gender differences in responses to an altruistic message regarding rubella vaccination. Front Public Health 2024; 12:1353091. [PMID: 39185119 PMCID: PMC11341465 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1353091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 08/27/2024] Open
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Background The supplementary immunization activity (SIA) for the rubella vaccination of adult men born between 1962 and 1978 began in 2019 in Japan because of a vaccine gap in the cohort, as vaccination was not mandatory for those born in that period. However, SIA coverage remains low, despite an active campaign and financial support. Methods We conducted a randomized controlled study based on a 2 (scenario: self-vaccination, child vaccination) × 2 (message: self-interest, group-interest) factorial design, using a Japanese online panel. Participants with children were assigned to the child vaccination scenario in Intervention 1, whereas others were assigned to the self-vaccination scenario. After Intervention 1, all participants were given the same information about rubella. In Intervention 2, participants assigned to self-interest messages received a message emphasizing the risk of rubella, and those assigned to group-interest messages received a message emphasizing herd immunity. After Intervention 2, we evaluated the effects using a questionnaire. Results Among the 2,206 participants, information regarding rubella was evaluated as more reliable in the group-than in the self-interest message condition, especially among women. Women evaluated the necessity of rubella vaccination for adult men and women to be higher in the child-vaccination scenario and group-interest messages. However, no differences were found among men. By contrast, men exposed to the self-interest message positively evaluated the reliability of the rubella explanation. Conclusion The findings indicate that emphasizing self-interest messages is more effective for men in promoting herd immunity against rubella.
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- Hideo Okuno
- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Environmental Health Division, Takasaki City Health Center, Gunma, Japan
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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Aghaeeyan A, Ramazi P, Lewis MA. The majority of Canadians likely behaved as myopic rationalists rather than success-based learners when deciding on their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Front Public Health 2024; 12:1406911. [PMID: 39114515 PMCID: PMC11303299 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1406911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024] Open
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Introduction Successful vaccine promotion communication strategies require knowing how eligible recipients will respond to the opportunity to get vaccinated. Two main classes of recipients are myopic rationalists, those who receive a dose of vaccine only if it maximizes their own instant benefit and if so, do it as soon as possible, and success-based learners, those who learn from others that they perceive to be most successful. Methods A recent study models these two decision-making types, and estimates the population proportion of myopic rationalists in each U.S. state. In this report, we fit a similar model to data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake across the Canadian provinces and territories. Results We estimated that 64% of Canadians behaved as myopic rationalists in taking the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an estimated 47% in the United States. Among the provinces, the lowest proportion of myopic rationalists was 0.51 in Saskatchewan, while the highest was 0.74 in Prince Edward Island. The correlation analysis suggested a positive correlation between the proportion of myopic rationalists and the average age across the Canadian provinces (Pearson-r = 0.71). Discussion Canadian health management may benefit from these results in tailoring the vaccine promotion communication strategies.
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- Azadeh Aghaeeyan
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Villota-Miranda J, Rodríguez-Ibeas R. Simple economics of vaccination: public policies and incentives. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 2024; 24:155-172. [PMID: 38517588 DOI: 10.1007/s10754-024-09367-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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This paper focuses on the economics of vaccination and, more specifically, analyzes the vaccination decision of individuals using a game-theoretic model combined with an epidemiological SIR model that reproduces the infection dynamics of a generic disease. We characterize the equilibrium individual vaccination rate, and we show that it is below the rate compatible with herd immunity due to the existence of externalities that individuals do not internalize when they decide on vaccination. In addition, we analyze three public policies consisting of informational campaigns to reduce the disutility of vaccination, monetary payments to vaccinated individuals and measures to increase the disutility of non-vaccination. If the public authority uses only one type of policy, herd immunity is not necessarily achieved unless monetary incentives are used. When the public authority is not limited to use only one policy, we find that the optimal public policy should consist only of informational campaigns if they are sufficiently effective, or a combination of informational campaigns and monetary incentives otherwise. Surprisingly, the requirement of vaccine passports or other restrictions on the non-vaccinated are not desirable.
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- Jesús Villota-Miranda
- Department of Economics, University of La Rioja, La Cigüeña 60, 26004, Logroño, Spain
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- Department of Economics, University of La Rioja, La Cigüeña 60, 26004, Logroño, Spain.
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Lièvre G, Sicsic J, Galmiche S, Charmet T, Fontanet A, Mueller JE. Are the 7C psychological antecedents associated with COVID-19 vaccine behaviours beyond intentions? A cross-sectional study on at-least-one-dose and up-to-date vaccination status, and uptake speed among adults in France. Vaccine 2024; 42:3288-3299. [PMID: 38643038 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024]
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BACKGROUND Widely documented psychological antecedents of vaccination are confidence in vaccines, complacency, convenience, calculation, collective responsibility (5C model) with the recent addition of confidence in the wider system and social conformism. While the capacity of these seven antecedents (7C) to explain variance in COVID-19 vaccine intentions has been previously documented, we study whether these factors also are associated with vaccine behaviours, beyond intentions. METHODS From February to June 2022, we recruited a sample of adults in France, including persons with notified recent SARS-CoV-2 infection, along with relatives and randomly selected non-infected persons. Participants completed self-administered questionnaires assessing COVID-19 vaccination history and the 7C antecedents. We defined vaccination behaviours as three outcomes: at-least-one-dose vaccine status by 2022 (N = 49,019), up-to-date vaccination status (N = 46,566), and uptake speed of first dose (N = 25,998). We conducted multivariable logistic regressions and Cox models. RESULTS Among the 49,019 participants, 95.0% reported receipt of at least one dose and 89.8% were up to date with recommendations. All 7C antecedents were significantly associated with the outcomes, although effects were weaker for up-to-date vaccination status and uptake speed. The strongest effects (most vs. least vaccine-favourable attitude level, at-least-one-dose vaccination status) were observed for collective responsibility (OR: 14.44; 95%CI: 10.72-19.45), calculation (OR: 10.29; 95%CI: 7.53-14.05), and confidence in the wider system (OR: 8.94; 95%CI: 6.51-12.27). CONCLUSION This study demonstrates that the 7C not only explain vaccine intention, but also vaccine behaviours, and underpins the importance of developing vaccine promotion strategies considering the 7C antecedents.
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- Gaëlle Lièvre
- Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France; Sorbonne Université, Ecole Doctorale Pierre Louis de Santé Publique, Paris, France
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- Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France; Sorbonne Université, Ecole Doctorale Pierre Louis de Santé Publique, Paris, France
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- Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France; Univ. Rennes, EHESP, CNRS, Inserm, Arènes - UMR 6051, RSMS (Recherche sur les Services et Management en Santé) - U 1309 - F-35000 Rennes, France.
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Reddinger JL, Charness G, Levine D. Vaccination as personal public good provision. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2022.04.21.22274110. [PMID: 35923323 PMCID: PMC9347278 DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.21.22274110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Vaccination against infectious diseases has both private and public benefits. We study whether social preferences-concerns for the well-being of other people-are associated with one's decision regarding vaccination. We measure these social preferences for 549 online subjects with a public-good game and an altruism game. To the extent that one gets vaccinated out of concern for the health of others, contribution in the public-good game is analogous to an individual's decision to obtain vaccination, while our altruism game provides a different measure of altruism, equity, and efficiency concerns. We proxy vaccine demand with how quickly a representative individual voluntarily took the initial vaccination for COVID-19 (after the vaccine was widely available). We collect COVID-19 vaccination history separately from the games to avoid experimenter-demand effects. We find a strong result: Contribution in the public-good game is associated with greater demand to voluntarily receive a first dose, and thus also to vaccinate earlier. Compared to a subject who contributes nothing, one who contributes the maximum ($4) is 58% more likely to obtain a first dose voluntarily in the four-month period that we study (April through August 2021). In short, people who are more pro-social are more likely to take a voluntary COVID-19 vaccination. Behavior in our altruism game does not predict vaccination. We recommend further research on the use of pro-social preferences to help motivate individuals to vaccinate for other transmissible diseases, such as the flu and HPV.
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Wang X, Li J, Liu J, Wu X. Dynamical vaccination behavior with risk perception and vaccination rewards. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2024; 34:033109. [PMID: 38442233 DOI: 10.1063/5.0186899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Vaccination is the most effective way to control the epidemic spreading. However, the probability of people getting vaccinated changes with the epidemic situation due to personal psychology. Facing various risks, some people are reluctant to vaccinate and even prefer herd immunity. To encourage people to get vaccinated, many countries set up reward mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a disease transmission model combining vaccination behaviors based on the SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) model and introduce three vaccination mechanisms. We analyze the impact of the infection rate and the recovery rate on the total cost and the epidemic prevalence. Numerical simulations fit with our intuitive feelings. Then, we study the impact of vaccination rewards on the total social cost. We find that when vaccination rewards offset vaccination costs, both the total cost and the epidemic prevalence reach the lowest levels. Finally, this paper suggests that encouraging people to get vaccinated at the beginning of an epidemic has the best effect.
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- Xueying Wang
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
- Research Center of Complex Network, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
- Research Center of Complex Network, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
- Research Center of Complex Network, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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Ullah MS, Kamrujjaman M, Kabir KMA. Understanding the relationship between stay-at-home measures and vaccine shortages: a conventional, heterogeneous, and fractional dynamic approach. JOURNAL OF HEALTH, POPULATION, AND NUTRITION 2024; 43:32. [PMID: 38424608 PMCID: PMC11396158 DOI: 10.1186/s41043-024-00505-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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In light of the global prevalence of a highly contagious respiratory disease, this study presents a novel approach to address the pressing and unanticipated issues by introducing a modified vaccination and lockdown-centered epidemic model. The rapid spread of the disease is attributed to viral transmissibility, the emergence of new strains (variants), lack of immunization, and human unawareness. This study aims to provide policymakers with crucial insights for making informed decisions regarding lockdown strategies, vaccine availability, and other control measures. The research adopts three types of models: deterministic, heterogeneous, and fractional-order dynamics, on both theoretical and numerical approaches. The heterogeneous network considers varying connectivity and interaction patterns among individuals, while the ABC fractional-order derivatives analyze the impact of integer-order control in different semi-groups. An extensive theoretical analysis is conducted to validate the proposed model. A comprehensive numerical investigation encompasses deterministic, stochastic, and ABC fractional-order derivatives, considering the combined effects of an effective vaccination program and non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as lockdowns and shutdowns. The findings of this research are expected to be valuable for policymakers in different countries, helping them implement dynamic strategies to control and eradicate the epidemic effectively.
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- Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Pepiot A, Supervie V, Breban R. Impact of voluntary testing on infectious disease epidemiology: A game theoretic approach. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293968. [PMID: 37934734 PMCID: PMC10629633 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023] Open
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The World Health Organization recommends test-and-treat interventions to curb and even eliminate epidemics of HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (e.g., chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis). Epidemic models show these goals are achievable, provided the participation of individuals in test-and-treat interventions is sufficiently high. We combine epidemic models and game theoretic models to describe individual's decisions to get tested for infectious diseases within certain epidemiological contexts, and, implicitly, their voluntary participation to test-and-treat interventions. We develop three hybrid models, to discuss interventions against HIV, HCV, and sexually transmitted infections, and the potential behavioral response from the target population. Our findings are similar across diseases. Particularly, individuals use three distinct behavioral patterns relative to testing, based on their perceived costs for testing, besides the payoff for discovering their disease status. Firstly, if the cost of testing is too high, then individuals refrain from voluntary testing and get tested only if they are symptomatic. Secondly, if the cost is moderate, some individuals will test voluntarily, starting treatment if needed. Hence, the spread of the disease declines and the disease epidemiology is mitigated. Thirdly, the most beneficial testing behavior takes place as individuals perceive a per-test payoff that surpasses a certain threshold, every time they get tested. Consequently, individuals achieve high voluntary testing rates, which may result in the elimination of the epidemic, albeit on temporary basis. Trials and studies have attained different levels of participation and testing rates. To increase testing rates, they should provide each eligible individual with a payoff, above a given threshold, each time the individual tests voluntarily.
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- Amandine Pepiot
- Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP), Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP), Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité d’Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France
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Beenstock M, Felsenstein D, Gdaliahu M. The joint determination of morbidity and vaccination in the spatiotemporal epidemiology of COVID-19. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol 2023; 47:100621. [PMID: 38042534 DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2023.100621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023]
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This paper examines the mutual dependence between COVID-19 morbidity and vaccination rollout. A theory of endogenous immunization is proposed in which the decision to become vaccinated varies directly with the risks of contagion, and the public self-selects into self-protection. Hence, COVID-19 morbidity varies inversely with vaccination rollout, and vaccination rollout varies directly with COVID-19 morbidity. The paper leverages the natural sequencing between morbidity and immunization to identify the causal order in the dynamics of this relationship. A modified SIR model is estimated using spatial econometric methods for weekly panel data for Israel at a high level of spatial granularity. Connectivity between spatial units is measured using physical proximity and a unique mobility-based measure. Spatiotemporal models for morbidity and vaccination rollout show that not only does morbidity vary inversely with vaccination rollout, vaccination rollout varies directly with morbidity. The utility of the model for public health policy targeting, is highlighted.
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- Michael Beenstock
- Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91900, Israel
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- Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91900, Israel.
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- Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91900, Israel
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Franceschi J, Pareschi L, Bellodi E, Gavanelli M, Bresadola M. Modeling opinion polarization on social media: Application to Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy in Italy. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0291993. [PMID: 37782677 PMCID: PMC10545118 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic reminded us how vaccination can be a divisive topic on which the public conversation is permeated by misleading claims, and thoughts tend to polarize, especially on online social networks. In this work, motivated by recent natural language processing techniques to systematically extract and quantify opinions from text messages, we present a differential framework for bivariate opinion formation dynamics that is coupled with a compartmental model for fake news dissemination. Thanks to a mean-field analysis we demonstrate that the resulting Fokker-Planck system permits to reproduce bimodal distributions of opinions as observed in polarization dynamics. The model is then applied to sentiment analysis data from social media platforms in Italy, in order to analyze the evolution of opinions about Covid-19 vaccination. We show through numerical simulations that the model is capable to describe correctly the formation of the bimodal opinion structure observed in the vaccine-hesitant dataset, which is witness of the known polarization effects that happen within closed online communities.
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Kabir KMA, Ullah MS, Tanimoto J. Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Utilizing a Mixed-Strategy Approach in Infectious Disease Control under a Voluntary Vaccination Policy. Vaccines (Basel) 2023; 11:1476. [PMID: 37766152 PMCID: PMC10536573 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11091476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Infectious diseases pose significant public health risks, necessitating effective control strategies. One such strategy is implementing a voluntary vaccination policy, which grants individuals the autonomy to make their own decisions regarding vaccination. However, exploring different approaches to optimize disease control outcomes is imperative, and involves assessing their associated costs and benefits. This study analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of employing a mixed-strategy approach under a voluntary vaccination policy in infectious disease control. We examine the potential benefits of such an approach by utilizing a vaccination game model that incorporates cost and benefit factors, where lower costs and higher benefits lead to reduced infection rates. Here, we introduce a mixed-strategy framework that combines individual-based risk assessment (IB-RA) and society-based risk assessment (SB-RA) strategies. A novel dynamical equation is proposed that captures the decision-making process of individuals as they choose their strategy based on personal or communal considerations. In addition, we explore the implications of the mixed-strategy approach within the context of social dilemmas. We examine deviations from expected behavior and the concept of social efficiency deficit (SED) by allowing for the evolution of vaccine strategy preferences alongside risk perception. By comprehensively evaluating the financial implications and societal advantages associated with the mixed-strategy approach, decision-makers can allocate resources and implement measures to combat infectious diseases within the framework of a voluntary vaccination policy.
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- K. M. Ariful Kabir
- Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 8168580, Japan;
- Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 8168580, Japan
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Gros C. Generic catastrophic poverty when selfish investors exploit a degradable common resource. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:221234. [PMID: 36778955 PMCID: PMC9905983 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The productivity of a common pool of resources may degrade when overly exploited by a number of selfish investors, a situation known as the tragedy of the commons. Without regulations, agents optimize the size of their individual investments into the commons by balancing incurring costs with the returns received. The resulting Nash equilibrium involves a self-consistency loop between individual investment decisions and the state of the commons. As a consequence, several non-trivial properties emerge. For N investing actors we prove rigorously that typical payoffs do not scale as 1/N, the expected result for cooperating agents, but as (1/N)2. Payoffs are hence reduced with regard to the functional dependence on N, a situation denoted catastrophic poverty. We show that catastrophic poverty results from a fine-tuned balance between returns and costs. Additionally, a finite number of oligarchs may be present. Oligarchs are characterized by payoffs that are finite and not decreasing when N increases. Our results hold for generic classes of models, including convex and moderately concave cost functions. For strongly concave cost functions the Nash equilibrium undergoes a collective reorganization, being characterized instead by entry barriers and sudden death forced market exits.
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- Claudius Gros
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Blasioli E, Mansouri B, Tamvada SS, Hassini E. Vaccine Allocation and Distribution: A Review with a Focus on Quantitative Methodologies and Application to Equity, Hesitancy, and COVID-19 Pandemic. OPERATIONS RESEARCH FORUM 2023; 4:27. [PMCID: PMC10028329 DOI: 10.1007/s43069-023-00194-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2023]
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This review focuses on vaccine distribution and allocation in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The implications discussed are in the areas of equity in vaccine distribution and allocation (at a national level as well as worldwide), vaccine hesitancy, game-theoretic modeling to guide decision-making and policy-making at a governmental level, distribution and allocation barriers (in particular in low-income countries), and operations research (OR) mathematical models to plan and execute vaccine distribution and allocation. To conduct this review, we adopt a novel methodology that consists of three phases. The first phase deploys a bibliometric analysis; the second phase concentrates on a network analysis; and the last phase proposes a refined literature review based on the results obtained by the previous two phases. The quantitative techniques utilized to conduct the first two phases allow describing the evolution of the research in this area and its potential ramifications in future. In conclusion, we underscore the significance of operations research (OR)/management science (MS) research in addressing numerous challenges and trade-offs connected to the current pandemic and its strategic impact in future research.
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- Emanuele Blasioli
- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- grid.412362.00000 0004 1936 8219Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada
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- grid.29857.310000 0001 2097 4281Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, PennsyIvania, USA
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- grid.25073.330000 0004 1936 8227DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Yang T, Deng W, Liu Y, Deng J. Comparison of health-oriented cross-regional allocation strategies for the COVID-19 vaccine: a mathematical modelling study. Ann Med 2022; 54:941-952. [PMID: 35393922 PMCID: PMC9004521 DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2022.2060522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Controlling the epidemic spread and establishing the immune barrier in a short time through accurate vaccine demand prediction and optimised vaccine allocation strategy are still urgent problems to be solved under the condition of frequent virus mutations. METHODS A cross-regional Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed dynamic model was used for scenario simulation to systematically elaborate and compare the effects of different cross-regional vaccine allocation strategies on the future development of the epidemic in regions with different population sizes, prevention and control capabilities, and initial risk levels. Furthermore, the trajectory of the cross-regional vaccine allocation strategy, calculated using a particle swarm optimisation algorithm, was compared with the trajectories of other strategies. RESULTS By visualising the final effect of the particle swarm optimisation vaccine allocation strategy, this study revealed the important role of prevention and control (including the level of social distancing control, the speed of tracking and isolating exposed and infected individuals, and the initial frequency of mask-wearing) in determining the allocation of vaccine resources. Most importantly, it supported the idea of prioritising control in regions with a large population and low initial risk level, which broke the general view that high initial risk needs to be given priority and proposed that outbreak risk should be firstly considered instead. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study to use a particle swarm optimisation algorithm to study the cross-regional allocation of COVID-19 vaccines. These data provide a theoretical basis for countries and regions to develop more targeted and sustainable vaccination strategies.KEY MESSAGEThe innovative combination of particle swarm optimisation and cross-regional SEIR model to simulate the pandemic trajectory and predict the vaccine demand helped to speed up and stabilise the construction of the immune barrier, especially faced with new virus mutations.We proposed that priority should be given to regions where it is possible to prevent more infections rather than regions where it is at high initial risk, thus regional outbreak risk should be considered when making vaccine allocation decisions.An optimal health-oriented strategy for vaccine allocation in the COVID-19 pandemic is determined considering both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical policy interventions, including speed of isolation, degree of social distancing control, and frequency of mask-wearing.
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- Tianan Yang
- School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, China
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Müller J, Tellier A, Kurschilgen M. Echo chambers and opinion dynamics explain the occurrence of vaccination hesitancy. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2022; 9:220367. [PMID: 36312563 PMCID: PMC9554521 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.220367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Vaccination hesitancy is a major obstacle to achieving and maintaining herd immunity. Therefore, public health authorities need to understand the dynamics of an anti-vaccine opinion in the population. We introduce a spatially structured mathematical model of opinion dynamics with reinforcement. The model allows as an emergent property for the occurrence of echo chambers, i.e. opinion bubbles in which information that is incompatible with one's entrenched worldview, is probably disregarded. We scale the model both to a deterministic limit and to a weak-effects limit, and obtain bifurcations, phase transitions and the invariant measure. Fitting the model to measles and meningococci vaccination coverage across Germany, reveals that the emergence of echo chambers dynamics explains the occurrence and persistence of the anti-vaccination opinion in allowing anti-vaxxers to isolate and to ignore pro-vaccination facts. We predict and compare the effectiveness of different policies aimed at influencing opinion dynamics in order to increase vaccination uptake. According to our model, measures aiming at reducing the salience of partisan anti-vaccine information sources would have the largest effect on enhancing vaccination uptake. By contrast, measures aiming at reducing the reinforcement of vaccination deniers are predicted to have the smallest impact.
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- Johannes Müller
- Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munchen, Germany
- Institute for Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Section of Population Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munchen, Germany
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- Department of Economics, UniDistance Suisse / FernUni Schweiz, Brig, Switzerland
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
- Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA
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Liu Y, Wu B. Coevolution of vaccination behavior and perceived vaccination risk can lead to a stag-hunt-like game. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:034308. [PMID: 36266897 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.034308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Voluntary vaccination is effective to prevent infectious diseases from spreading. Both vaccination behavior and cognition of the vaccination risk play important roles in individual vaccination decision making. However, it is not clear how the coevolution of the two shapes population-wide vaccination behavior. We establish a coupled dynamics of epidemic, vaccination behavior, and perceived vaccination risk with three different time scales. We assume that the increase of vaccination level inhibits the rise of perceived vaccination risk, and the increase of perceived vaccination risk inhibits the rise of vaccination level. It is shown that the resulting vaccination behavior is similar to the stag-hunt game, provided that the basic reproductive ratio is moderate and that the epidemic dynamics evolves sufficiently fast. This is in contrast with the previous view that vaccination is a snowdriftlike game. And we find that epidemic breaks out repeatedly and eventually leads to vaccine scares if these three dynamics evolve on a similar time scale. Furthermore, we propose some ways to promote vaccination behavior, such as controlling side-effect bias and perceived vaccination costs. Our work sheds light on epidemic control via vaccination by taking into account the coevolutionary dynamics of cognition and behavior.
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- Yuan Liu
- School of Sciences, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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- School of Sciences, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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Pan Y, Ng CT, Dong C, Cheng TCE. Information sharing and coordination in a vaccine supply chain. ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH 2022; 329:1-24. [PMID: 35194284 PMCID: PMC8853114 DOI: 10.1007/s10479-022-04562-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Vaccination is a well-known method to protect the public against an epidemic outbreak, e.g., COVID-19. To this end, the government of a country or region would strive to achieve its target of vaccination coverage. Limited by the total vaccine capacity of public hospitals, the government may need to cooperate with private hospitals or clinics for more vaccination. Exploring in this paper government coordination of public and private resources for vaccination, we model a vaccine system consisting of a public hospital, a profit-maximizing private clinic, and self-interested individuals, under three scenarios: (1) without information sharing (concerning vaccine inventory and vaccine price), (2) with information sharing and subsidy, and (3) with information sharing and allocation. We find that, under scenario (1), the vaccine demand is fully satisfied by the public hospital and the private clinic cannot make any profit. Under scenario (2), the private clinic is willing to enter the vaccine market with a positive profit-maximizing vaccination coverage. Under scenario (3), the socially optimal vaccination coverage may be lower than that under scenario (1). Moreover, we conduct a sensitivity analysis to generate practical implications of the research findings for vaccination policy-making. Our results provide both theoretical and managerial insights on vaccine supply decision, government intervention, and vaccination coverage.
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- Yuqing Pan
- Logistics Research Centre, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR China
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- Logistics Research Centre, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR China
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- School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073 China
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- Logistics Research Centre, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR China
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Wen FT, Malani A, Cobey S. The Potential Beneficial Effects of Vaccination on Antigenically Evolving Pathogens. Am Nat 2022; 199:223-237. [DOI: 10.1086/717410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Frank T. Wen
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
- University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois 60637; and University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Li XJ, Li C, Li X. The impact of information dissemination on vaccination in multiplex networks. SCIENCE CHINA INFORMATION SCIENCES 2022; 65:172202. [PMCID: PMC9244521 DOI: 10.1007/s11432-020-3076-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 07/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The impact of information dissemination on epidemic control is essentially subject to individual behaviors. Vaccination is one of the most effective strategies against the epidemic spread, whose correlation with the information dissemination should be better understood. To this end, we propose an evolutionary vaccination game model in multiplex networks by integrating an information-epidemic spreading process into the vaccination dynamics, and explore how information dissemination influences vaccination. The spreading process is described by a two-layer coupled susceptible-alert-infected-susceptible (SAIS) model, where the strength coefficient between two layers characterizes the tendency and intensity of information dissemination. We find that the impact of information dissemination on vaccination decision-making depends on not only the vaccination cost and network topology, but also the stage of the system evolution. For instance, in a two-layer BA scale-free network, information dissemination helps to improve vaccination density only at the early stage of the system evolution, as well as when the vaccination cost is smaller. A counter-intuitive conclusion that more information transmission cannot promote vaccination is obtained when the vaccination cost is larger. Moreover, we study the impact of the strength coefficient and individual sensitivity on the fraction of infected individuals and social cost, and unveil the role of information dissemination in controlling the epidemic.
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- Xiao-Jie Li
- Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
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- Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
- Research Center of Smart Networks and Systems, School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
- MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
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- Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
- Research Center of Smart Networks and Systems, School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
- MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China
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Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions. Vaccine 2021; 39:7158-7165. [PMID: 34774363 PMCID: PMC8531257 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Widespread vaccination remains the best option for controlling the spread of COVID-19 and ending the pandemic. Despite the considerable disruption the virus has caused to people’s lives, many people are still hesitant to receive a vaccine. Without high rates of uptake, however, the pandemic is likely to be prolonged. Here we use two survey experiments to study how persuasive messaging affects COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions. In the first experiment, we test a large number of treatment messages. One subgroup of messages draws on the idea that mass vaccination is a collective action problem and highlighting the prosocial benefit of vaccination or the reputational costs that one might incur if one chooses not to vaccinate. Another subgroup of messages built on contemporary concerns about the pandemic, like issues of restricting personal freedom or economic security. We find that persuasive messaging that invokes prosocial vaccination and social image concerns is effective at increasing intended uptake and also the willingness to persuade others and judgments of non-vaccinators. We replicate this result on a nationally representative sample of Americans and observe that prosocial messaging is robust across subgroups, including those who are most hesitant about vaccines generally. The experiments demonstrate how persuasive messaging can induce individuals to be more likely to vaccinate and also create spillover effects to persuade others to do so as well. The first experiment in this study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov and can be found under the ID number NCT04460703. This study was registered at Open Science Framework (OSF) at: https://osf.io/qu8nb/?view_only=82f06ecad77f4e54b02e8581a65047d7.
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Yamin D, Kahana D, Shahmoon E, Fitzpatrick MC, Galvani AP. Influenza vaccination should have no border: cost-effectiveness of cross-border subsidy. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:1543. [PMID: 34384411 PMCID: PMC8358262 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11601-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Influenza is a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality for Israel and the Palestinian territory. Given the extensive interaction between the two populations, vaccination in one population may indirectly benefit the other via reduced transmission. Due to the mobility and extensive contacts, Palestinians employed in Israel could be a prime target for vaccination. Methods To evaluate the epidemiological and the economic benefits conferred by vaccinating Palestinians employed in Israel, we developed a model of influenza transmission within and between Israel and the West Bank. We parameterized the contact patterns underlying transmission by conducting a survey among Palestinians employed in Israel, and integrating survey results with traffic patterns and socio-demographic data. Results Vaccinating 50% of Palestinian workers is predicted to reduce the annual influenza burden by 28,745 cases (95% CI: 15,031-50,717) and 37.7 deaths (95% CI: 19·9–65·5) for the Israeli population, and by 32,9900 cases (95% CI: 14,379-51,531) and 20.2 deaths (CI 95%: 9·8–31·5) for the Palestinian population. Further, we found that as the indirect protection was so substantial, funding such a vaccination campaign would be cost-saving from the Israeli Ministry of Health perspective. Conclusions Offering influenza vaccination to Palestinians employed in Israel could efficiently reduce morbidity and mortality within both Israel and the Palestinian territory. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-11601-2.
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- Dan Yamin
- Laboratory for Epidemic Modeling and Analysis, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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- Laboratory for Epidemic Modeling and Analysis, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Laboratory for Epidemic Modeling and Analysis, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21201, Maryland, USA.,Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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Bai F. Effect of population heterogeneity on herd immunity and on vaccination decision making process. J Theor Biol 2021; 526:110795. [PMID: 34102199 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We study the influence of population heterogeneity on herd immunity level and on individual's vaccination decision making process. We first formulate the mathematical model in a population with two subgroups, based on different activity levels or different susceptibilities. The herd immunity threshold is derived and discussed. It is calculated that the required vaccine coverage level for herd immunity in a heterogeneous mixing population can be varied significantly. The required vaccine coverage level is lower than the classical herd immunity level, if the vaccine coverage level in the more active group or more susceptible group is higher than the other subgroup. It is suggested that the classical herd immunity levels can be misleading in the process of planning mass vaccination programs. The analysis is further extended to study the population with more subgroups. We then study the formal vaccination games to simulate the process of vaccination decision making, in either homogeneous or heterogeneous mixing populations. It is proved that the Nash equilibrium in the vaccination game is not unique if population heterogeneity is considered. Moreover, herd immunity is not achieved if individuals are solely driven by self-interests.
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- Fan Bai
- Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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Kahana D, Yamin D. Accounting for the spread of vaccination behavior to optimize influenza vaccination programs. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0252510. [PMID: 34086772 PMCID: PMC8177529 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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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 patterns of both influenza vaccination uptake and influenza incidence. Taking the identified complex underlying dynamics of these two processes into account, our model determined the optimal timing of influenza vaccination programs. Our simulation shows that in regions where high vaccination coverage is anticipated, vaccination uptake would be more rapid. Thus, our model suggests that vaccination programs should be initiated later in the season, to mitigate the effect of waning immunity from the vaccine. Our simulations further show that optimally timed vaccination programs can substantially reduce disease transmission without increasing vaccination uptake.
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- Dor Kahana
- Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Center for Combatting Pandemics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Kreps SE, Kriner DL. Factors influencing Covid-19 vaccine acceptance across subgroups in the United States: Evidence from a conjoint experiment. Vaccine 2021; 39:3250-3258. [PMID: 33966909 PMCID: PMC8064867 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.04.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2020] [Revised: 04/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Public health officials warn that the greatest barrier to widespread vaccination against Covid-19 will not be scientific or technical, but the considerable public hesitancy to take a novel vaccine. Understanding the factors that influence vaccine acceptance is critical to informing public health campaigns aiming to combat public fears and ensure broad uptake. Employing a conjoint experiment embedded on an online survey of almost 2,000 adult Americans, we show that the effects of seven vaccine attributes on subjects’ willingness to vaccinate vary significantly across subgroups. Vaccine efficacy was significantly more influential on vaccine acceptance among whites than among Blacks, while bringing a vaccine to market under a Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization had a stronger adverse effect on willingness to vaccinate among older Americans and women. Democrats were more sensitive to vaccine efficacy than Republicans, and both groups responded differently to various endorsements of the vaccine. We also explored whether past flu vaccination history, attitudes toward general vaccine safety, and personal contact with severe cases of Covid-19 can explain variation in group vaccination hesitancy. Many subgroups that exhibit the greatest Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy did not report significantly lower frequencies of flu vaccination. Several groups that exhibited greater Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy also reported greater concerns about vaccine safety generally, but others did not. Finally, subgroup variation in reported personal contact with severe cases of Covid-19 did not strongly match subgroup variation in vaccine acceptance.
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- S E Kreps
- Cornell University, Department of Government, White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
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- Cornell University, Department of Government, White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, United States.
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Gosak M, Kraemer MUG, Nax HH, Perc M, Pradelski BSR. Endogenous social distancing and its underappreciated impact on the epidemic curve. Sci Rep 2021; 11:3093. [PMID: 33542416 PMCID: PMC7862686 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82770-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Social distancing is an effective strategy to mitigate the impact of infectious diseases. If sick or healthy, or both, predominantly socially distance, the epidemic curve flattens. Contact reductions may occur for different reasons during a pandemic including health-related mobility loss (severity of symptoms), duty of care for a member of a high-risk group, and forced quarantine. Other decisions to reduce contacts are of a more voluntary nature. In particular, sick people reduce contacts consciously to avoid infecting others, and healthy individuals reduce contacts in order to stay healthy. We use game theory to formalize the interaction of voluntary social distancing in a partially infected population. This improves the behavioral micro-foundations of epidemiological models, and predicts differential social distancing rates dependent on health status. The model's key predictions in terms of comparative statics are derived, which concern changes and interactions between social distancing behaviors of sick and healthy. We fit the relevant parameters for endogenous social distancing to an epidemiological model with evidence from influenza waves to provide a benchmark for an epidemic curve with endogenous social distancing. Our results suggest that spreading similar in peak and case numbers to what partial immobilization of the population produces, yet quicker to pass, could occur endogenously. Going forward, eventual social distancing orders and lockdown policies should be benchmarked against more realistic epidemic models that take endogenous social distancing into account, rather than be driven by static, and therefore unrealistic, estimates for social mixing that intrinsically overestimate spreading.
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- Marko Gosak
- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia
- Faculty od Medicine, University of Maribor, Taborska ulica 8, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ, UK
- Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, 02115, USA
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- Behavioral Game Theory, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 37, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, 8050, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia
- Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstraße 39, 1080, Vienna, Austria
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Inria, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000, Grenoble, France
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Ferreyra EJ, Jonckheere M, Pinasco JP. SIR Dynamics with Vaccination in a Large Configuration Model. APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND OPTIMIZATION 2021; 84:1769-1818. [PMID: 34334841 PMCID: PMC8308122 DOI: 10.1007/s00245-021-09810-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We consider an SIR model with vaccination strategy on a sparse configuration model random graph. We show the convergence of the system when the number of nodes grows and characterize the scaling limits. Then, we prove the existence of optimal controls for the limiting equations formulated in the framework of game theory, both in the centralized and decentralized setting. We show how the characteristics of the graph (degree distribution) influence the vaccination efficiency for optimal strategies, and we compute the limiting final size of the epidemic depending on the degree distribution of the graph and the parameters of infection, recovery and vaccination. We also present several simulations for two types of vaccination, showing how the optimal controls allow to decrease the number of infections and underlining the crucial role of the network characteristics in the propagation of the disease and the vaccination program.
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- Emanuel Javier Ferreyra
- Instituto de Cálculo UBA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av Cantilo s/n, Ciudad Universitaria (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Cálculo UBA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av Cantilo s/n, Ciudad Universitaria (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- IMAS UBA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av Cantilo s/n, Ciudad Universitaria (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av Cantilo s/n, Ciudad Universitaria (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Klein SRM, Foster AO, Feagins DA, Rowell JT, Erovenko IV. Optimal voluntary and mandatory insect repellent usage and emigration strategies to control the chikungunya outbreak on Reunion Island. PeerJ 2020; 8:e10151. [PMID: 33362952 PMCID: PMC7750003 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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In 2005, a chikungunya virus outbreak devastated the tropical island of Reunion, infecting a third of the total population. Motivated by the Reunion Island case study, we investigate the theoretic potential for two intervention measures under both voluntary and mandatory protocols to control a vector-borne disease when there is risk of the disease becoming endemic. The first measure uses insect repellent to prevent mosquito bites, while the second involves emigrating to the neighboring Mauritius Island to avoid infection. There is a threshold on the cost of using repellent above which both voluntary and mandatory regimes find it optimal to forgo usage. Below that threshold, mandatory usage protocols will eradicate the disease; however, voluntary adoption leaves the disease at a small endemic level. Emigrating from the island to avoid infection results in a tragedy-of-the-commons effect: while being potentially beneficial to specific susceptible individuals, the remaining islanders paradoxically face a higher risk of infection. Mandated relocation of susceptible individuals away from the epidemic is viable only if the cost of this relocation is several magnitudes lower than the cost of infection. Since this assumption is unlikely to hold for chikungunya, it is optimal to discourage such emigration for the benefit of the entire population. An underlying assumption about the conservation of human-vector encounter rates in mosquito biting behavior informs our conclusions and may warrant additional experimental verification.
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- Sylvia R M Klein
- Department of Mathematics, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
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Chang SL, Piraveenan M, Pattison P, Prokopenko M. Game theoretic modelling of infectious disease dynamics and intervention methods: a review. JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS 2020; 14:57-89. [PMID: 31996099 DOI: 10.1080/17513758.2020.1720322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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We review research studies which use game theory to model the decision-making of individuals during an epidemic, attempting to classify the literature and identify the emerging trends in this field. The literature is classified based on (i) type of population modelling (classical or network-based), (ii) frequency of the game (non-repeated or repeated), and (iii) type of strategy adoption (self-learning or imitation). The choice of model is shown to depend on many factors such as the immunity to the disease, the strength of immunity conferred by the vaccine, the size of population and the level of mixing therein. We highlight that while early studies used classical compartmental modelling with self-learning games, in recent years, there is a substantial growth of network-based modelling with imitation games. The review indicates that game theory continues to be an effective tool to model decision-making by individuals with respect to intervention (vaccination or social distancing).
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- Sheryl L Chang
- Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, John Hopkins Drive, Sydney, Australia
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- Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Deka A, Pantha B, Bhattacharyya S. Optimal Management of Public Perceptions During A Flu Outbreak: A Game-Theoretic Perspective. Bull Math Biol 2020; 82:139. [PMID: 33064223 PMCID: PMC7563916 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-020-00817-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 10/29/2022]
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Public perceptions and sentiments play a crucial role in the success of vaccine uptake in the community. While vaccines have proven to be the best preventive method to combat the flu, the attitude and knowledge about vaccines are a major hindrance to higher uptake in most of the countries. The yearly coverage, especially in the vulnerable groups in the population, often remains below the herd immunity level despite the Flu Awareness Campaign organized by WHO every year worldwide. This brings immense challenges to the nation's public health protection agency for strategic decision-making in controlling the flu outbreak every year. To understand the impact of public perceptions and vaccination decisions while designing optimal immunization policy, we model the individual decision-making as a two-strategy pairwise contest game, where pay-off is considered as a function of public health effort for the campaign. We use Pontryagin's maximum principle to identify the best possible strategy for public health to implement vaccination and reduce infection at a minimum cost. Our optimal analysis shows that the cost of public health initiatives is qualitatively and quantitatively different under different public perceptions and attitudes towards vaccinations. When individual risk perception evolves with vaccine uptake or disease induced death, our model demonstrates a feed-forward mechanism in the dynamics of vaccination and exhibits an increase in vaccine uptake. Using numerical simulation, we also observe that the optimal cost can be minimized by putting the effort in the beginning and later part of the outbreak rather than during the peak. It confers that public health efforts towards disseminating disease severity or actual vaccination risk might accelerate the vaccination coverage and mitigate the infection faster.
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- Aniruddha Deka
- Disease Modelling Lab, Department of Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, NH-91, Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP India
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- College of Arts and Sciences, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, GA USA
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- Disease Modelling Lab, Department of Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, NH-91, Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP India
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Li XJ, Li X. Vaccinating SIS epidemics under evolving perception in heterogeneous networks. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. B 2020; 93:185. [PMID: 33024413 PMCID: PMC7531267 DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2020-10355-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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ABSTRACT Vaccination is an effective intervention against epidemics. Previous work has demonstrated that psychological cognition affects individual behavior. However, perceptual differences between individuals, as well as the dynamics of perceptual evolution, are not taken into account. In order to explore how these realistic characteristics of psychological cognition influence collective vaccination behavior, we propose a prospect theory based evolutionary vaccination game model, where the evolution of reference points is used to characterize changes in perception. We compare the fractions of vaccinated individuals and infected individuals under variable reference points with those under the expected utility theory and the fixed reference point, and highlight the role of evolving perception in promoting vaccination and contributing to epidemic control. We find that the epidemic size under variable reference point is always less than that under the expected utility theory. Finding that there exists a vaccination cost threshold for the cognitive effect, we develop a novel mixed-reference-point mechanism by combining individual psychological characteristics with network topological feature. The effectiveness of this mechanism in controlling the network epidemics is verified with numerical simulations. Compared with pure reference points, the mixed-reference-point mechanism can effectively reduce the final epidemic size, especially at a large vaccination cost.
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- Xiao-Jie Li
- Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering – Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 P.R. China
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- Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering – Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 P.R. China
- Research Center of Smart Networks and Systems, School of Information Science and Engineering – Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 P.R. China
- MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institutes of Brain Science – Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 P.R. China
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Choi W, Shim E. Optimal strategies for vaccination and social distancing in a game-theoretic epidemiologic model. J Theor Biol 2020; 505:110422. [PMID: 32717195 PMCID: PMC7381420 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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For various infectious diseases, vaccination has become a major intervention strategy. However, the importance of social distancing has recently been highlighted during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the absence of vaccination, or when vaccine efficacy is poor, social distancing may help to curb the spread of new virus strains. However, both vaccination and social distancing are associated with various costs. It is critical to consider these costs in addition to the benefits of these strategies when determining the optimal rates of application of control strategies. We developed a game-theoretic epidemiological model that considers vaccination and social distancing under the assumption that individuals pursue the maximization of payoffs. By using this model, we identified the individually optimal strategy based on the Nash strategy when both strategies are available and when only one strategy is available. Furthermore, we determined the relative costs of control strategies at which individuals preferentially adopt vaccination over social distancing (or vice versa).
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- Wongyeong Choi
- Department of Mathematics, Soongsil University, 369 Sangdoro, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Mathematics, Soongsil University, 369 Sangdoro, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea.
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Bankuru SV, Kossol S, Hou W, Mahmoudi P, Rychtář J, Taylor D. A game-theoretic model of Monkeypox to assess vaccination strategies. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9272. [PMID: 32607280 PMCID: PMC7316080 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Monkeypox (MPX) is a zoonotic disease similar to smallpox. Its fatality rate is about 11% and it is endemic to the Central and West African countries. In this paper, we analyze a compartmental model of MPX dynamics. Our goal is to see whether MPX can be controlled and eradicated by voluntary vaccinations. We show that there are three equilibria—disease free, fully endemic and previously neglected semi-endemic (with disease existing only among humans). The existence of semi-endemic equilibrium has severe implications should the MPX virus mutate to increased viral fitness in humans. We find that MPX is controllable and can be eradicated in a semi-endemic equilibrium by vaccination. However, in a fully endemic equilibrium, MPX cannot be eradicated by vaccination alone.
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- Sri Vibhaav Bankuru
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America
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Wells CR, Huppert A, Fitzpatrick MC, Pandey A, Velan B, Singer BH, Bauch CT, Galvani AP. Prosocial polio vaccination in Israel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:13138-13144. [PMID: 32457142 PMCID: PMC7293608 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922746117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Regions with insufficient vaccination have hindered worldwide poliomyelitis eradication, as they are vulnerable to sporadic outbreaks through reintroduction of the disease. Despite Israel's having been declared polio-free in 1988, a routine sewage surveillance program detected polio in 2013. To curtail transmission, the Israel Ministry of Health launched a vaccine campaign to vaccinate children-who had only received the inactivated polio vaccine-with the oral polio vaccine (OPV). Determining the degree of prosocial motivation in vaccination behavior is challenging because vaccination typically provides direct benefits to the individual as well as indirect benefits to the community by curtailing transmission. However, the Israel OPV campaign provides a unique and excellent opportunity to quantify and model prosocial vaccination as its primary objective was to avert transmission. Using primary survey data and a game-theoretical model, we examine and quantify prosocial behavior during the OPV campaign. We found that the observed vaccination behavior in the Israeli OPV campaign is attributable to prosocial behavior and heterogeneous perceived risk of paralysis based on the individual's comprehension of the prosocial nature of the campaign. We also found that the benefit of increasing comprehension of the prosocial nature of the campaign would be limited if even 24% of the population acts primarily from self-interest, as greater vaccination coverage provides no personal utility to them. Our results suggest that to improve coverage, communication efforts should also focus on alleviating perceived fears surrounding the vaccine.
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- Chad R Wells
- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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- The Biostatistics & Biomathematics Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, 52621 Ramat Gan, Israel
- School of Public Health, The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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- The Biostatistics & Biomathematics Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, 52621 Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610;
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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Cheng E, Gambhirrao N, Patel R, Zhowandai A, Rychtář J, Taylor D. A game-theoretical analysis of poliomyelitis vaccination. J Theor Biol 2020; 499:110298. [PMID: 32371008 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Poliomyelitis is a worldwide disease that has nearly been eradicated thanks to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Nevertheless, the disease is currently still endemic in three countries. In this paper, we incorporate the vaccination in a two age-class model of polio dynamics. Our main objective is to see whether mandatory vaccination policy is needed or if polio could be almost eradicated by a voluntary vaccination. We perform game theoretical analysis and compare the herd immunity vaccination levels with the Nash equilibrium vaccination levels. We show that the gap between two vaccination levels is too large. We conclude that the mandatory vaccination policy is therefore needed to achieve a complete eradication.
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- Emily Cheng
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-3068, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-3068, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-3068, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2012, USA.
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- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2014, USA.
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- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2014, USA.
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Kleczkowski A, Hoyle A, McMenemy P. One model to rule them all? Modelling approaches across OneHealth for human, animal and plant epidemics. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 374:20180255. [PMID: 31056049 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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One hundred years after the 1918 influenza outbreak, are we ready for the next pandemic? This paper addresses the need to identify and develop collaborative, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches to modelling of infectious diseases including the fields of not only human and veterinary medicine, but also plant epidemiology. Firstly, the paper explains the concepts on which the most common epidemiological modelling approaches are based, namely the division of a host population into susceptible, infected and removed (SIR) classes and the proportionality of the infection rate to the size of the susceptible and infected populations. It then demonstrates how these simple concepts have been developed into a vast and successful modelling framework that has been used in predicting and controlling disease outbreaks for over 100 years. Secondly, it considers the compartmental models based on the SIR paradigm within the broader concept of a 'disease tetrahedron' (comprising host, pathogen, environment and man) and uses it to review the similarities and differences among the fields comprising the 'OneHealth' approach. Finally, the paper advocates interactions between all fields and explores the future challenges facing modellers. This article is part of the theme issue 'Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: approaches and important themes'. This issue is linked with the subsequent theme issue 'Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: epidemic forecasting and control'.
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- Adam Kleczkowski
- 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde , Glasgow G1 1XH , UK
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- 2 Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling , Stirling FK9 4LA , UK
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- 2 Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling , Stirling FK9 4LA , UK
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Isler O, Isler B, Kopsacheilis O, Ferguson E. Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: a field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour. BMC Public Health 2020; 20:240. [PMID: 32066407 PMCID: PMC7027065 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-8246-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Background Influenza vaccine uptake remains low worldwide, inflicting substantial costs to public health. Messages promoting social welfare have been shown to increase vaccination intentions, and it has been recommended that health professionals communicate the socially beneficial aspects of vaccination. We provide the first test whether this prosocial vaccination hypothesis applies to actual vaccination behaviour of high-risk patients. Methods In a field experiment at a tertiary care public hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, we compare the effects of two motivational messages for promoting vaccination. Using a between-subjects single-blind experimental design patients were randomly assigned to frames emphasizing the vaccine’s benefits to self (n = 125) or social benefits (n = 119). Free influenza vaccination was offered to each patient. Results Among 222 patients who were not vaccinated for the season prior to the study (72% medically assessed to be at high risk), 42% in the self-benefit frame chose to receive a vaccination compared with 34% in the social-benefits frame, but the difference was not statistically significant (aOR = 1.63, 95% CI 0.90 to 2.95, p = 0.108). Reasons for vaccination focused primarily on self-benefit (67%) rather than social-benefit (5%). Exploratory analysis showed that the effect of messages depended on patient perception of risk group membership (aORHigh / aORLow = 5.59, 95% CI 1.30 to 24.05, p = 0.021). In particular, emphasis on self-benefit was more influential among patients who perceived themselves to be in the risk group (aOR = 6.22, 95% CI 1.69 to 22.88, p = 0.006). Conclusions In contrast to the literature observing intentions of low-risk populations, we found no evidence that social-benefit motivates actual vaccination behaviour among a high-risk patient population. Instead, those who self-categorize as being in the high risk group are more motivated by the self-benefit message. Our results suggest that a stratified approach can improve coverage: even if an emphasis on social-benefit could be effective among low-risk groups, an emphasis on self-benefit holds more promise for increasing vaccination in medical organizational settings where high-risk groups are prevalent. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04230343 Retrospectively registered on the 13th January 2020.
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- Ozan Isler
- Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST), School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, 4000, Australia.,Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.,Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Herston, Brisbane, 4029, Australia
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- Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. .,School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
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Brunner I, Schmedders K, Wolfensberger A, Schreiber PW, Kuster SP. The economic and public health impact of influenza vaccinations: contributions of Swiss pharmacies in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 influenza seasons and implications for vaccination policy. Swiss Med Wkly 2019; 149:w20161. [DOI: 10.57187/smw.2019.20161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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AIMS OPF THE STUDY
Healthy adults have had the option to receive prescriptionless vaccination against influenza in pharmacies of several Swiss cantons since the 2015/16 influenza season. We aimed to assess in a cost-benefit analysis the resulting net benefits for the Swiss economy and public health, and the benefits that could be expected if an extension of the current vaccination recommendations was implemented.
METHODS
The proportion of influenza vaccines administered in pharmacies was calculated from data provided by pharmacies entering information in phS-net.ch, data from vaccines covered by insurance companies, and vaccine supply data. The economic and public health impact was estimated in a cost-benefit analysis based on published data.
RESULTS
In the 2016/17 and 2017/18 influenza seasons, 7306 of a total of 1.07 million (0.7%) and 15,617 of a total of 1.15 million (1.4%) influenza vaccine doses, respectively, were administered in pharmacies in Switzerland. The net cost savings for the economy due to vaccination in pharmacies in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons were CHF 66,633 and CHF 143,021, respectively. In the 2017/18 season, this resulted –in a net saving per 100,000 inhabitants of CHF 1918, 94.4 cases of illness, 17.6 visits to primary care physicians, 0.328 hospitalisations, 1.1 hospitalisation days, 0.019 deaths prevented, and 0.353 life-years gained. Influenza vaccination proved to be cost-effective provided that a vaccine efficacy of 59% is exceeded. Extrapolations for the healthy, working-age population revealed that a vaccination coverage rate of 50% and a vaccine efficacy of 70% could save the Swiss economy CHF 18.4 million annually.
CONCLUSIONS
The service allowing citizens to receive influenza vaccination in Swiss pharmacies is sparsely used. Since influenza vaccination is cost-beneficial as soon as vaccine efficacy surpasses a critical threshold, an extension of the vaccine recommendation for healthy, working-age adults should be considered from an economic point of view.
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Wei Y, Lin Y, Wu B. Vaccination dilemma on an evolving social network. J Theor Biol 2019; 483:109978. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2019] [Revised: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Tarrant C, Colman A, Chattoe-Brown E, Jenkins D, Mehtar S, Perera N, Krockow E. Optimizing antibiotic prescribing: collective approaches to managing a common-pool resource. Clin Microbiol Infect 2019; 25:1356-1363. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A Rational Explanation of Limited FMD Vaccine Uptake in Endemic Regions. Pathogens 2019; 8:pathogens8040181. [PMID: 31658689 PMCID: PMC6963929 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens8040181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Vaccination for foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease remains low in parts of Africa despite the existence of vaccines. In East Africa, the presence of multiple virus serotypes and sub-types makes matching a vaccine with the circulating virus type in the field, or providing a high potency vaccine, a challenge. In this paper we use game theory to show that the resulting vaccine uncertainty associated with these vaccination conditions in an endemic setting help explain the low vaccine uptake. We evaluate vaccination for FMD in the context of East Africa due to FMD being endemic in the region, the diversity of FMD virus types, and barriers to implementing other disease control measures, such as controlled movements. We incorporate these conditions into a vaccination game setting and compare the payoffs to those of a traditional vaccination game for seasonal influenza and commercial livestock vaccination in a developed country context. In showing that vaccination provides households with a lower payoff than not vaccinating, our simple game theoretical explanation supports existing evidence calling for improved vaccine quality and efforts to enhance surveillance to provide early information on disease status.
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Sah P, Alfaro-Murillo JA, Fitzpatrick MC, Neuzil KM, Meyers LA, Singer BH, Galvani AP. Future epidemiological and economic impacts of universal influenza vaccines. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:20786-20792. [PMID: 31548402 PMCID: PMC6789917 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1909613116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The efficacy of influenza vaccines, currently at 44%, is limited by the rapid antigenic evolution of the virus and a manufacturing process that can lead to vaccine mismatch. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) recently identified the development of a universal influenza vaccine with an efficacy of at least 75% as a high scientific priority. The US Congress approved $130 million funding for the 2019 fiscal year to support the development of a universal vaccine, and another $1 billion over 5 y has been proposed in the Flu Vaccine Act. Using a model of influenza transmission, we evaluated the population-level impacts of universal influenza vaccines distributed according to empirical age-specific coverage at multiple scales in the United States. We estimate that replacing just 10% of typical seasonal vaccines with 75% efficacious universal vaccines would avert ∼5.3 million cases, 81,000 hospitalizations, and 6,300 influenza-related deaths per year. This would prevent over $1.1 billion in direct health care costs compared to a typical season, based on average data from the 2010-11 to 2018-19 seasons. A complete replacement of seasonal vaccines with universal vaccines is projected to prevent 17 million cases, 251,000 hospitalizations, 19,500 deaths, and $3.5 billion in direct health care costs. States with high per-hospitalization medical expenses along with a large proportion of elderly residents are expected to receive the maximum economic benefit. Replacing even a fraction of seasonal vaccines with universal vaccines justifies the substantial cost of vaccine development.
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- Pratha Sah
- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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- Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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Xin Y, Gerberry D, Just W. Open-minded imitation can achieve near-optimal vaccination coverage. J Math Biol 2019; 79:1491-1514. [PMID: 31327021 DOI: 10.1007/s00285-019-01401-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Game-theoretic studies of voluntary vaccination predict that a socially unstructured population that is guided exclusively by individual rational self-interest always reaches a Nash equilibrium with vaccination coverage that is below the societal optimum. Human decision-making involves additional mechanisms, such as imitation of the successful strategies of others. However, previous research has found that imitation leads to vaccination coverage that is even below the Nash equilibrium. In this work, we note that these conclusions rely on the widely accepted use of Fermi functions for modeling the probabilities of switching to another strategy. We consider here a more general functional form of the switching probabilities. It involves one additional parameter [Formula: see text]. This parameter can be loosely interpreted as a degree of open-mindedness. The resulting dynamics are consistent with the ones that would be generated by functions that give best fits for empirical data in a widely cited psychological experiment. We show that sufficiently high levels of open-mindedness, as conceptualized by our parameter [Formula: see text], will drive equilibrium vaccination coverage levels above the Nash equilibrium, and in fact arbitrarily close to the societal optimum. These results were obtained both through mathematical analysis and numerical simulations.
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- Ying Xin
- Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.,Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 45207, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA. .,Quantitative Biology Institute, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
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Addressing vaccine compliance problems is of particular relevance and significance to public health. Despite resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases and public awareness of vaccine importance, why is it so challenging to boost population vaccination coverage to desired levels especially in the wake of declining vaccine uptake? To understand this puzzling phenomenon, here we study how social imitation dynamics of vaccination can be impacted by the presence of imperfect vaccine, which only confers partial protection against the disease. Besides weighing the perceived cost of vaccination with the risk of infection, the effectiveness of vaccination is also an important factor driving vaccination decisions. We discover that there can exist multiple stable vaccination equilibria if vaccine efficacy is below a certain threshold. Furthermore, our bifurcation analysis reveals the occurrence of hysteresis loops of vaccination rate with respect to changes in the perceived vaccination cost as well as in the vaccination effectiveness. Moreover, we find that hysteresis is more likely to arise in spatial populations than in well-mixed populations, even for parameter choices that do not allow for bifurcation in the latter. Our work shows that hysteresis can appear as an unprecedented roadblock for the recovery of vaccination uptake, thereby helping explain the persistence of vaccine compliance problem.
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- Xingru Chen
- Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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Bai F. Modeling vaccination decision making process in a finite population. Math Biosci 2018; 311:82-90. [PMID: 30414873 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2018.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2017] [Revised: 06/02/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Vaccination is considered as one of the most crucial methods in controlling the spread of infectious diseases. However, it is difficult to predict the expected vaccine coverage level because it depends on human behaviors. We consider deterministic and stochastic models to simulate how individuals choose strategies in the scenario of vaccination. In an infinite population, a system of replicator equations is formulated and the expected level is calculated. Decision making processes in both an unstructured finite population and a structured finite population are discussed. Expected vaccine coverage levels are calculated and analyzed. In a structured finite population, passive decision making process and initiative decision making process are defined. It is also analytically and numerically proved that the passive decision making process can predict a higher vaccine coverage level than the process of initiative decision making.
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- Fan Bai
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042, United States.
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Only collective action can fight off winter influenza outbreaks. EClinicalMedicine 2018; 4-5:1-2. [PMID: 31193657 PMCID: PMC6537543 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2018.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Kobe J, Pritchard N, Short Z, Erovenko IV, Rychtář J, Rowell JT. A Game-Theoretic Model of Cholera with Optimal Personal Protection Strategies. Bull Math Biol 2018; 80:2580-2599. [PMID: 30203140 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-018-0476-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2016] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Cholera is an acute gastro-intestinal infection that affects millions of people throughout the world each year, primarily but not exclusively in developing countries. Because of its public health ramifications, considerable mathematical attention has been paid to the disease. Here we consider one neglected aspect of combating cholera: personal participation in anti-cholera interventions. We construct a game-theoretic model of cholera in which individuals choose whether to participate in either vaccination or clean water consumption programs under assumed costs. We find that relying upon individual compliance significantly lowers the incidence of the disease as long as the cost of intervention is sufficiently low, but does not eliminate it. The relative costs of the measures determined whether a population preferentially adopts a single preventative measure or employs the measure with the strongest early adoption.
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- Julia Kobe
- Department of Applied Mathematics, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 27402, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, 27110, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 27402, USA.
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 27402, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 27402, USA
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Chen F. Voluntary vaccinations and vaccine shortages: A theoretical analysis. J Theor Biol 2018; 446:19-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2017] [Revised: 02/16/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Brewer NT, Chapman GB, Rothman AJ, Leask J, Kempe A. Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action. Psychol Sci Public Interest 2018; 18:149-207. [DOI: 10.1177/1529100618760521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 483] [Impact Index Per Article: 80.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Vaccination is one of the great achievements of the 20th century, yet persistent public-health problems include inadequate, delayed, and unstable vaccination uptake. Psychology offers three general propositions for understanding and intervening to increase uptake where vaccines are available and affordable. The first proposition is that thoughts and feelings can motivate getting vaccinated. Hundreds of studies have shown that risk beliefs and anticipated regret about infectious disease correlate reliably with getting vaccinated; low confidence in vaccine effectiveness and concern about safety correlate reliably with not getting vaccinated. We were surprised to find that few randomized trials have successfully changed what people think and feel about vaccines, and those few that succeeded were minimally effective in increasing uptake. The second proposition is that social processes can motivate getting vaccinated. Substantial research has shown that social norms are associated with vaccination, but few interventions examined whether normative messages increase vaccination uptake. Many experimental studies have relied on hypothetical scenarios to demonstrate that altruism and free riding (i.e., taking advantage of the protection provided by others) can affect intended behavior, but few randomized trials have tested strategies to change social processes to increase vaccination uptake. The third proposition is that interventions can facilitate vaccination directly by leveraging, but not trying to change, what people think and feel. These interventions are by far the most plentiful and effective in the literature. To increase vaccine uptake, these interventions build on existing favorable intentions by facilitating action (through reminders, prompts, and primes) and reducing barriers (through logistics and healthy defaults); these interventions also shape behavior (through incentives, sanctions, and requirements). Although identification of principles for changing thoughts and feelings to motivate vaccination is a work in progress, psychological principles can now inform the design of systems and policies to directly facilitate action.
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- Noel T. Brewer
- Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina
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- Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
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- Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS), University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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Brettin A, Rossi–Goldthorpe R, Weishaar K, Erovenko IV. Ebola could be eradicated through voluntary vaccination. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2018; 5:171591. [PMID: 29410863 PMCID: PMC5792940 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe infection with an extremely high fatality rate spread through direct contact with body fluids. A promising Ebola vaccine (rVSV-ZEBOV) may soon become universally available. We constructed a game-theoretic model of Ebola incorporating individual decisions to vaccinate. We found that if a population adopts selfishly optimal vaccination strategies, then the population vaccination coverage falls negligibly short of the herd immunity level. We concluded that eradication of Ebola is feasible if voluntary vaccination programmes are coupled with focused public education efforts. We conducted uncertainty and sensitivity analysis to demonstrate that our findings do not depend on the choice of the epidemiological model parameters.
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- Andrew Brettin
- Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Regis University, Denver, CO 80221, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
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