Effects of human mobility on the spread of Dengue in the region of Caldas, Colombia

Ospina-Aguirre, Carolina ; Soriano-Paños, David ; Olivar-Tost, Gerard ; Galindo-González, Cristian C. ; Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Osorio, Gustavo

Resumen: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the most common acute arthropod-borne viral infection in the world. The spread of dengue and other infectious diseases is closely related to human activity and mobility. In this paper we analyze the effect of introducing mobility restrictions as a public health policy on the total number of dengue cases within a population. To perform the analysis, we use a complex metapopulation in which we implement a compartmental propagation model coupled with the mobility of individuals between the patches. This model is used to investigate the spread of dengue in the municipalities of Caldas (CO). Two scenarios corresponding to different types of mobility restrictions are applied. In the first scenario, the effect of restricting mobility is analyzed in three different ways: a) limiting the access to the endemic node but allowing the movement of its inhabitants, b) restricting the diaspora of the inhabitants of the endemic node but allowing the access of outsiders, and c) a total isolation of the inhabitants of the endemic node. In this scenario, the best simulation results are obtained when specific endemic nodes are isolated during a dengue outbreak, obtaining a reduction of up to 2.5% of dengue cases. Finally, the second scenario simulates a total isolation of the network, i.e., mobility between nodes is completely limited. We have found that this control measure increases the number of total dengue cases in the network by 2.36%.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011087

Año: 2023

Publicado en: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17, 11 (2023), e0011087 [20 pp.]
ISSN: 1935-2727

Factor impacto JCR: 3.4 (2023)

Categ. JCR: TROPICAL MEDICINE rank: 5 / 28 = 0.179 (2023) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: PARASITOLOGY rank: 9 / 45 = 0.2 (2023) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 7.4 - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Q1) - Infectious Diseases (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.258 - Infectious Diseases (Q1) - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Q1) - Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-23R-FENOL
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113582GB-I00

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Materia Condensada (Dpto. Física Materia Condensa.)