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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Social dynamics influence disease transmission and intervention adoption.
  • Waning vaccine immunity necessitates timely booster uptake to maintain protection.
  • Understanding social influences on vaccination is crucial for epidemic control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how social dynamics affect timely vaccine booster uptake.
  • To model the impact of social conformity and collective action on epidemic trajectories.
  • To identify optimal public health strategies for promoting booster vaccination.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a behavioral-epidemiological model.
  • Incorporation of tipping-point dynamics for vaccine uptake.
  • Inclusion of infection risk, vaccine risk perception, and social conformity payoffs.

Main Results:

  • Delayed booster uptake due to social dynamics can cause epidemic waves.
  • Disease prevalence shows a nonlinear response to transmission rates.
  • Local information sharing mitigates collective action problems compared to global information.

Conclusions:

  • Social norms and conformity create collective action problems in vaccination.
  • Public policy should focus on overcoming initial social inertia for booster uptake.
  • Decisions based on local network information can improve population-level vaccination.