Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1
Abstract
There is significant current interest in the application of media/psychosocial effects to problems in
epidemiology. News reporting has the potential to reach and to modify the knowledge, attitudes, and
behavior of a large proportion of the community. A susceptible-infected-hospitalized-recovered
model with vital dynamics, where media coverage of disease incidence and disease prevalence can
influence people to reduce their contact rates is formulated. The media function is incorporated
into the model using an exponentially decreasing function. Qualitative analysis of the model reveals
that the disease-free equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable when a certain threshold is less than unity.
Numerical results show the potential short-term beneficial effect of media coverage.
Funder
Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
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