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The Ebola Crisis and the Corresponding Public Behavior: A System Dynamics Approach

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Currents, November 2016
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Title
The Ebola Crisis and the Corresponding Public Behavior: A System Dynamics Approach
Published in
PLoS Currents, November 2016
DOI 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.23badd9821870a002fa86bef6893c01d
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Nasser Sharareh, Nasim S Sabounchi, Hiroki Sayama, Roderick MacDonald

Abstract

The interaction of several sociocultural and environmental factors during an epidemic crisis leads to behavioral responses that consequently make the crisis control a complex problem. The system dynamics approach has been adopted to study the relationships between spread of disease, public attention, situational awareness, and community's response to the Ebola epidemic. In developing different simulation models to capture the trend of death and incidence data from the World Health Organization for the Ebola outbreak, the final model has the best fit to the historical trends. Results demonstrate that the increase of quarantining rate over time due to increase in situational awareness and performing safe burials had a significant impact on the control of epidemic. However, public attention did not play a significant role. The best fit to historical data are achieved when behavioral factors specific to West Africa like studying the Situational Awareness and Public Attention are included in the model. However, by ignoring the sociocultural factors, the model is not able to represent the reality; therefore, in the case of any epidemics, it is necessary that all the parties and community members find the most significant behavioral factors that can curb the epidemic.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 55 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 16%
Researcher 6 11%
Other 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Other 13 24%
Unknown 12 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 13%
Social Sciences 6 11%
Engineering 5 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Other 15 27%
Unknown 15 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 September 2017.
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#2,623,858
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Outputs from PLoS Currents
#102
of 436 outputs
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#43,611
of 317,711 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Currents
#1
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