Social dilemma of nonpharmaceutical interventions: Determinants of dynamic compliance and behavioral shifts.

Autor: Glaubitz A; Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755., Fu F; Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.; Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03756.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2024 Dec 10; Vol. 121 (50), pp. e2407308121. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 04.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2407308121
Abstrakt: In fighting infectious diseases posing a global health threat, ranging from influenza to Zika, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI), such as social distancing and face covering, remain mitigation measures public health can resort to. However, the success of NPI lies in sufficiently high levels of collective compliance, otherwise giving rise to recurrent infections that are not only driven by pathogen evolution but also changing vigilance in the population. Here, we show that compliance with each NPI measure can be highly dynamic and context-dependent during an ongoing epidemic, where individuals may prefer one to another or even do nothing, leading to intricate temporal switching behavior of NPI adoptions. By characterizing dynamic regimes through the perceived costs of NPI measures and their effectiveness in particular regarding face covering and social distancing, our work offers insights into overcoming barriers in NPI adoptions.
Competing Interests: Competing interests statement:The authors declare no competing interest.
Databáze: MEDLINE