124359 20251113150203.0 doi 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100544 sideral 132760 ART-2022-132760 eng Ventura, Paulo Cesar Modeling the effects of social distancing on the large-scale spreading of diseases 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted To contain the propagation of emerging diseases that are transmissible from human to human, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing the interactions between humans are usually implemented. One example of the latter kind of measures is social distancing, which can be either policy-driven or can arise endogenously in the population as a consequence of the fear of infection. However, if NPIs are lifted before the population reaches herd immunity, further re-introductions of the pathogen would lead to secondary infections. Here we study the effects of different social distancing schemes on the large scale spreading of diseases. Specifically, we generalize metapopulation models to include social distancing mechanisms at the subpopulation level and model short- and long-term strategies that are fed with local or global information about the epidemics. We show that different model ingredients might lead to very diverse outcomes in different subpopulations. Our results suggest that there is not a unique answer to the question of whether contention measures are more efficient if implemented and managed locally or globally and that model outcomes depends on how the full complexity of human interactions is taken into account. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FEDER/E36-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIN-AEI-FEDER/PID2020-115800GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 3.8 2022 INFECTIOUS DISEASES 49 / 96 = 0.51 2022 Q3 T2 1.448 2022 Epidemiology 2022 Q1 Infectious Diseases 2022 Q1 Microbiology 2022 Q1 Parasitology 2022 Q1 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2022 Q1 Virology 2022 Q2 6.5 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Aleta, Alberto Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1192-8707 Rodrigues, Francisco Aparecido Moreno, Yamir Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0895-1893 2004 405 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Teórica Área Física Teórica 38 (2022), 100544 [13 pp.] EPIDEMICS EPIDEMICS 1755-4365 3628217 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124359/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2683962 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/124359/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:124359 articulos driver 2025-11-13-15:00:42 ARTICLE