Optimal tax/subsidy combinations for the flu season

Francis, Peter J.

doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2003.08.001

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“…Similarly, Barrett (2003) finds market failures in a dynamic model with homogeneous individuals but with non-dynamic vaccination choices. Last, Francis (2004) also finds a similar result, but assumes that individuals do not discount the future, which renders the time profile of infections irrelevant. Gersovitz (2003) considers a vaccination model in which individuals care about their own welfare, but where the planner also cares about the welfare of future generations.…”

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The economics of vaccination

Chen

Toxvaerd

2014

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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“…This is the case studied by Francis (2004) without discounting and by Francis (2007) with discounting. Reluga and Galvani (2011) consider both recovery and waning of immunity.…”

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The economics of vaccination

Chen

Toxvaerd

2014

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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“…There has been growing interest in the application of game theory to epidemiological modelling [3][4][5][6][7][8]10,11,[35][36][37][38]. The first study of vaccination behaviour from an economic perspective was prompted by concerns associated with the pertussis vaccine [35].…”

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The influence of altruism on influenza vaccination decisions

Shim

Chapman

Townsend

et al. 2012

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Game theory is based on the assumption that individuals act according to self-interest and make decisions that maximize their personal payoffs. To test this fundamental assumption, we conducted a survey study in the context of influenza vaccination decisions. Contrary to the assumption of self-interest, we found that altruism plays an important role in vaccination decisions. Nevertheless, altruistic motivation has not yet been considered in epidemiological models, in predictions of vaccination decisions or in the design of vaccination policies. To determine the impact of altruism on the adherence to optimal vaccination policies and on resulting disease burden, we incorporated altruism into a game-theoretic epidemiological model of influenza vaccination. We found that altruism significantly shifted vaccination decisions away from individual self-interest and towards the community optimum, greatly reducing the total cost, morbidity and mortality for the community. Therefore, promoting altruism could be a potential strategy to improve public health outcomes.

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“…But scant attention is paid to the network effects determined by heterogeneous contacts that we focus on in this paper. For example, Francis (2004) solves for the optimal tax/subsidy policy for influenza in an SIR model with a constant contact rate and random mixing among the population. Geoffard and Philipson (1997) examine how the individual incentives for vaccination decrease as disease incidence decreases and thereby argue that relying exclusively on private markets is unlikely to lead to disease eradication.…”

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Network position and health care worker infections

Tassier

Polgreen

Segre

2015

J Econ Interact Coord

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We use a newly collected data set coupled with an agent-based model to study the spread of infectious disease in hospitals. We estimate the average and marginal infections created by various worker groups in a hospital as a function of their network position in order to identify groups most crucial in a hospital-based epidemic. Surprisingly, we find that many groups with primary patient care responsibilities play a small role in spreading an infectious disease within our hospital data set. We also demonstrate that the effect of different network positions can be as important as the effect of different transmission rates for some categories of workers.

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Optimal tax/subsidy combinations for the flu season

Cited by 70 publications

References 13 publications

The economics of vaccination

The economics of vaccination

The influence of altruism on influenza vaccination decisions

Network position and health care worker infections

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