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Evolutionary vaccination dynamics in epidemic spreading process with public subsidy mechanism

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  • Guomei Tang

    (Institute of Computational Physics and Complex Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, P. R. China†School of Mathematics and Computer Science Institute, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, P. R. China)

  • Weifang Ma

    (#x2020;School of Mathematics and Computer Science Institute, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, P. R. China)

Abstract

This paper presents an internal public subsidy mechanism, in which the population themselves subsidize the vaccinated individuals, to study the evolutionary vaccination dynamics in the epidemic spreading process. By means of theoretical analysis and extensive computer simulations, we show that the mechanism can effectively enhance the vaccine coverage and significantly make many persons still choose vaccination when the vaccination cost is nearly or even more than the infection cost. In addition, we prove that there exists a lower bound of vaccine coverage controlled by our proposed mechanism. The overall results are robust to the typical synthetic and real-world networks.

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  • Guomei Tang & Weifang Ma, 2018. "Evolutionary vaccination dynamics in epidemic spreading process with public subsidy mechanism," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 29(12), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:29:y:2018:i:12:n:s0129183118501243
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183118501243
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