Epidemics and adaptive behavior as a coupled-human natural system : trust and response to the 2014-15 ebola epidemic in Liberia
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Infectious diseases and the human response to their proliferation are components of a coupled human-natural system, characterized by complex interactions and dynamics. How humans react to infectious disease crises is a critical component of understanding how epidemics work, but we often neglect its consideration in our predictive modeling or empirical measurements. In this dissertation, we introduce a mathematical model that displays complex dynamic patterns from simple assumptions about the nature of epidemics and human adaptation; an empirical study in Liberia on perceptions of trust in government actions during the 2014-15 Ebola epidemic, and qualitative results from a set of nine focus-group discussions about how people weighed trust and behavior decisions during the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Arthur, Ronan Forde |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Feldman, Marcus W |
| Degree supervisor | Jones, James Holland |
| Thesis advisor | Feldman, Marcus W |
| Thesis advisor | Jones, James Holland |
| Thesis advisor | De Leo, Giulio A |
| Thesis advisor | Luby, Stephen |
| Degree committee member | De Leo, Giulio A |
| Degree committee member | Luby, Stephen |
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ronan F. Arthur. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University). |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Ronan Forde Arthur
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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