Intransigent vs. volatile opinions in a kinetic epidemic model with imitation game dynamics.

In the mathematical epidemiology community, there is an increasing interest in shaping the complex interplay between human behaviour and disease spreading. We give a contribution in this direction by illustrating a method to derive behavioural change epidemic models from a stochastic particle description by the means of kinetic equations. We consider a susceptible-infected-removed-like model where contact rates depend on the behavioural patterns adopted across the population.