The Question

What are the benefits of incorporating economic incentives of individual behavior into epidemiological disease models?

What we found

Epidemiological models could benefit from the incorporation of behavioral choices, including the effects of informational asymmetries on behavior and transmission. Economists could benefit from paying greater attention to the specifics of particular diseases.

Why it matters

A unified framework for thinking about behavioral responses to disease risks could be usefully combined with infectious disease models for a better understanding of how diseases and humans interact.

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