Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-1767-4744

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Infectious diseases, Epidemiology

Publication Details

MIDAS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING: MIDAS 2021

Abstract

Vaccination rates are often presented at the level of a country or region. However, within those areas there might be geographic or demographic pockets that have higher or lower vaccination rates. We use an agent-based model designed to simulate the spread of measles in Irish towns to examine if the effectiveness of vaccination rates to reduce disease at a population level is sensitive to the uniformity of vaccinations across socioeconomic groups. We find that when vaccinations are not applied evenly across socioeconomic groups we see more outbreaks and outbreaks with larger magnitudes.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/nxw1-2c48

Funder

Fiosraigh Scholarship Programme, ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology

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