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ArticleProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2020

Spontaneous divergence of disease status in an economic epidemiological game.

Ewan Colman, Nick Hanley, Rowland R Kao

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Article in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ewan ColmanRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2551-8589
Nick HanleyInstitute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1362-3499
Rowland R KaoRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0919-6401
Roslin Institute · GBUniversity of Glasgow · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce a game inspired by the challenges of disease management in livestock farming and the transmission of endemic disease through a trade network. Success in this game comes from balancing the cost of buying new stock with the risk that it will be carrying some disease. When players follow a simple memory-based strategy we observe a spontaneous separation into two groups corresponding to players with relatively high, or low, levels of infection. By modelling the dynamics of both the disease and the formation and breaking of trade relationships, we derive the conditions for which this separation occurs as a function of the transmission rate and the threshold level of acceptable disease for each player. When interactions in the game are restricted to players that neighbour each other in a small-world network, players tend to have similar levels of infection as their neighbours. We conclude that success in economic-epidemiological systems can originate from misfortune and geographical circumstances as well as by innate differences in personal attitudes towards risk.

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coevolving networksdynamics of networksdynamics on networksgameslivestock trade

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PMID33214756
PMCPMC7655765
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