Mathematical modeling of the effects of public health education on tungiasis -- a neglected disease with many challenges in endemic communities

DOI10.1186/S13662-018-1875-5zbMath1448.92328OpenAlexW2901040355MaRDI QIDQ1716302

David N. Angwenyi, Cecilia M. Musyoka, Rachel A. Nyang'inja, Titus Okello Orwa

Publication date: 4 February 2019

Published in: Advances in Difference Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-018-1875-5

zbMATH Keywords

global stabilitybasic reproduction numberLyapunov stability theoryjigger infestationpublic health education

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Stability theory of functional-differential equations (34K20) Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Global stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D23) Medical epidemiology (92C60)

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