title: Human behaviors: A threat to mosquito control?
abstract: In this work, we consider a simple theoretical model that enables us to take into account private human decisions that may interfere with public mosquito control. The model reflects the trade-off between perceived costs and observed efficacy. Our theoretical results emphasize that households may reduce their protective behavior in response to mechanical elimination techniques piloted by a public agent, leading to an increase in the total number of mosquitoes in the surrounding environment and generating a barrier for vector-borne diseases control. Our study is sufficiently generic to be applied to different arboviral diseases. It also shows that vector-control models and strategies have to take into account individual behaviors.
authors: CIRAD, UMR AMAP. TA A51/PS2, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France. Electronic address: yves.dumont@cirad.fr.
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Dumont
authors: CNRS - Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne. 106-112, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Thuilliez
mesh_terms: D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009032:Mosquito Control; D000072138:Mosquito Vectors
keywords: Cooperative system; Human behaviors; Impulsive differential equation; Numerical simulations; Population dynamics; Vector control