Modeling the impact of community information dissemination on the transmission dynamics of lymphatic filariasis
摘要
The World Health Organization has underscored the importance of implementing sustained and integrated interventions to interrupt the transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF); however, achieving this goal requires a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the disease. In this study, we propose a deterministic mathematical model to investigate the transmission and control of LF, incorporating key factors including treated and untreated individuals, community information dissemination, immature and mature mosquito populations. We fitted the LF model to data using reported LF cases in Ghana from 2010 to 2021. The parameter fitting reported a normalized mean squared error of