Formulating human risk response in epidemic models: exogenous vs endogenous approaches

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Main Authors: LeJeune, Leah, Ghaffarzadegan, Navid, Childs, Lauren, Saucedo, Omar
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Published: 2024
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author LeJeune, Leah
Ghaffarzadegan, Navid
Childs, Lauren
Saucedo, Omar
author_facet LeJeune, Leah
Ghaffarzadegan, Navid
Childs, Lauren
Saucedo, Omar
contents The recent pandemic emphasized the need to consider the role of human behavior in shaping epidemic dynamics. In particular, it is necessary to extend beyond the classical epidemiological structures to fully capture the interplay between the spread of disease and how people respond. Here, we focus on the challenge of incorporating change in human behavior in the form of "risk response" into compartmental epidemiological models, where humans adapt their actions in response to their perceived risk of becoming infected. The review examines 37 papers containing over 40 compartmental models, categorizing them into two fundamentally distinct classes: exogenous and endogenous approaches to modeling risk response. While in exogenous approaches, human behavior is often included using different fixed parameter values for certain time periods, endogenous approaches seek for a mechanism internal to the model to explain changes in human behavior as a function of the state of disease. We further discuss two different formulations within endogenous models as implicit versus explicit representation of information diffusion. This analysis provides insights for modelers in selecting an appropriate framework for epidemic modeling.
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spellingShingle Formulating human risk response in epidemic models: exogenous vs endogenous approaches
LeJeune, Leah
Ghaffarzadegan, Navid
Childs, Lauren
Saucedo, Omar
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
37N25
The recent pandemic emphasized the need to consider the role of human behavior in shaping epidemic dynamics. In particular, it is necessary to extend beyond the classical epidemiological structures to fully capture the interplay between the spread of disease and how people respond. Here, we focus on the challenge of incorporating change in human behavior in the form of "risk response" into compartmental epidemiological models, where humans adapt their actions in response to their perceived risk of becoming infected. The review examines 37 papers containing over 40 compartmental models, categorizing them into two fundamentally distinct classes: exogenous and endogenous approaches to modeling risk response. While in exogenous approaches, human behavior is often included using different fixed parameter values for certain time periods, endogenous approaches seek for a mechanism internal to the model to explain changes in human behavior as a function of the state of disease. We further discuss two different formulations within endogenous models as implicit versus explicit representation of information diffusion. This analysis provides insights for modelers in selecting an appropriate framework for epidemic modeling.
title Formulating human risk response in epidemic models: exogenous vs endogenous approaches
topic Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
37N25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15535