Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "Population"
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Bounded Rationality Alters The Dynamics Of Paediatric Immunization Acceptance
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-06-02)Interactions between disease dynamics and vaccinating behavior have been explored in many coupled behavior-disease models. Cognitive effects such as risk perception, framing, and subjective probabilities of adverse events ... -
Disease Interventions Can Interfere With One Another Through Disease-Behaviour Interactions
(Public Library of Science, 2015-06-01)Theoretical models of disease dynamics on networks can aid our understanding of how infectious diseases spread through a population. Models that incorporate decision-making mechanisms can furthermore capture how behaviour-driven ... -
Outlook On A Worldwide Forest Transition
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-09)It is not clear whether a worldwide "forest transition" to net reforestation will ever occur, and the need to address the main driver-agriculture-is compelling. We present a mathematical model of land use dynamics based ... -
Sexual Behavior, Risk Perception, And Hiv Transmission Can Respond To Hiv Antiviral Drugs And Vaccines Through Multiple Pathways
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-10-28)There has been growing use of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) for HIV and significant progress in developing prophylactic HIV vaccines. The simplest theories of counterproductive behavioral responses to such ... -
Use of the interRAI CHESS Scale to Predict Mortality among Persons with Neurological Conditions in Three Care Settings
(Public LIbrary of Science, 2014-06-10)Background: Persons with certain neurological conditions have higher mortality rates than the population without neurological conditions, but the risk factors for increased mortality within diagnostic groups are less well ...