On the effectiveness of communication strategies as non-pharmaceutical interventions to tackle epidemics
When pharmaceutical interventions are unavailable to deal with an epidemic outbreak, adequate management of communication strategies can be key to reduce the contagion risks. On the one hand, accessibility to trustworthy and timely information, whilst on the other, the adoption of preventive behavio...
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| description | When pharmaceutical interventions are unavailable to deal with an epidemic outbreak, adequate management of communication strategies can be key to reduce the contagion risks. On the one hand, accessibility to trustworthy and timely information, whilst on the other, the adoption of preventive behaviors may be both crucial. However, despite the abundance of communication strategies, their effectiveness has been scarcely evaluated or merely circumscribed to the scrutiny of public affairs. To study the influence of communication strategies on the spreading dynamics of an infectious disease, we implemented a susceptible-exposed-infected-removed-dead (SEIRD) epidemiological model, using an agent-based approach. Agents in our systems can obtain information modulating their behavior from two sources: (i) through the local interaction with other neighboring agents and, (ii) from a central entity delivering information with a certain periodicity. In doing so, we highlight how global information delivered from a central entity can reduce the impact of an infectious disease and how informing even a small fraction of the population has a remarkable impact, when compared to not informing the population at all. Moreover, having a scheme of delivering daily messages makes a stark difference on the reduction of cases, compared to the other evaluated strategies, denoting that daily delivery of information produces the largest decrease in the number of cases. Furthermore, when the information spreading relies only on local interactions between agents, and no central entity takes actions along the dynamics, then the epidemic spreading is virtually independent of the initial amount of informed agents. On top of that, we found that local communication plays an important role in an intermediate regime where information coming from a central entity is scarce. As a whole, our results highlight the importance of proper communication strategies, both accurate and daily, to tackle epidemic outbreaks. |
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| subjects | Africa, Western - epidemiology Behavior Biology Chile Communication Computer and Information Sciences Control Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - prevention & control Disease Disease prevention Disease transmission Ebola virus Ebolavirus Epidemic models Epidemics Epidemics - prevention & control Epidemiology Evaluation Health aspects Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - prevention & control Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - transmission Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - virology Humans Immune system Infections Infectious diseases Information sources Medicine and Health Sciences Models, Statistical Outbreaks Pandemics Periodicity Pharmaceuticals Physical Sciences Population Public health administration Public policy Quarantine - methods Research and Analysis Methods Social Behavior Social Sciences Sociology Software Spreading Strategies |
| title | On the effectiveness of communication strategies as non-pharmaceutical interventions to tackle epidemics |
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