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Disease and information spreading at different speeds in multiplex networks

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Velásquez-Rojas, Fátima, Ventura, Paulo Cesar, Connaughton, Colm, Moreno, Yamir, Rodrigues, Francisco A. and Vazquez, Federico (2020) Disease and information spreading at different speeds in multiplex networks. Physical Review E, 102 (2). 022312 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.022312

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Abstract

Nowadays, one of the challenges we face when carrying out modeling of epidemic spreading is to develop methods to control disease transmission. In this article we study how the spreading of knowledge of a disease affects the propagation of that disease in a population of interacting individuals. For that, we analyze the interaction between two different processes on multiplex networks: the propagation of an epidemic using the susceptible-infected-susceptible dynamics and the dissemination of information about the disease—and its prevention methods—using the unaware-aware-unaware dynamics, so that informed individuals are less likely to be infected. Unlike previous related models where disease and information spread at the same time scale, we introduce here a parameter that controls the relative speed between the propagation of the two processes. We study the behavior of this model using a mean-field approach that gives results in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations on homogeneous complex networks. We find that increasing the rate of information dissemination reduces the disease prevalence, as one may expect. However, increasing the speed of the information process as compared to that of the epidemic process has the counterintuitive effect of increasing the disease prevalence. This result opens an interesting discussion about the effects of information spreading on disease propagation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Centre for Complexity Science
Faculty of Science > Mathematics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- Mathematical models, Communicable diseases -- Mathematical models, Epidemiology -- Mathematical models, Graph theory -- Data processing, Physics
Journal or Publication Title: Physical Review E
Publisher: American Physical Society
ISSN: 1539-3755
Official Date: 24 August 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
24 August 2020Published
4 August 2020Accepted
Volume: 102
Number: 2
Article Number: 022312
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.022312
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders: ©2020 American Physical Society
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
ER36 − 20RFederación Española de Enfermedades Rarashttp://viaf.org/viaf/141310358
UNSPECIFIEDMinisterio de Economía y Competitividadhttp://viaf.org/viaf/9151963615700310998
FIS2017 − 87519−PFederación Española de Enfermedades Rarashttp://viaf.org/viaf/141310358
PIP0443/2014Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicashttp://viaf.org/viaf/154266212
PICT 2016 Nro 2010215Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológicahttp://viaf.org/viaf/148657046
2016/24555 − 0Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulohttp://viaf.org/viaf/147398725
2013/07375 − 0Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulohttp://viaf.org/viaf/147398725
309266/2019 − 0Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológicohttp://viaf.org/viaf/154202039

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