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SUBMITTER: Liao CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206797 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liao C-M CM You S-H SH Cheng Y-H YH
Epidemiology and infection 20140320 1
Influenza poses a significant public health burden worldwide. Understanding how and to what extent people would change their behaviour in response to influenza outbreaks is critical for formulating public health policies. We incorporated the information-theoretic framework into a behaviour-influenza (BI) transmission dynamics system in order to understand the effects of individual behavioural change on influenza epidemics. We showed that information transmission of risk perception played a cruci ...[more]