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- Human behavior greatly affects how diseases spread during an epidemic, and the disease can change how people act too.
- The study examines how different behaviors can help control the spread of disease and looks at ways to predict and analyze this relationship.
- Results show that when people make safer choices, it can slow down the disease's spread, with individual actions being more effective than group behavior, but some people may still take risks.
Article Abstract
Human behavior has a major impact on the spread of the disease during an epidemic. At the same time, the spread of disease has an impact on human behavior. In this paper, we propose a coupled model of human behavior and disease transmission, take into account both individual-based risk assessment and neighbor-based replicator dynamics. The transmission threshold of epidemic disease and the stability of disease-free equilibrium point are analyzed. Some numerical simulations are carried out for the system. Three kinds of return matrices are considered and analyzed one by one. The simulation results show that the change of human behavior can effectively inhibit the spread of the disease, individual-based risk assessments had a stronger effect on disease suppression, but also more hitchhikers. This work contributes to the study of the relationship between human behavior and disease epidemics.
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