Simulation Analysis of Vaccination Subsidy with ABM Approach

Abstract

Vaccination subsidy is one of the major types of public health services.In order to evaluate the efficiency of the subsidy, this researchcarries out an Agent-Based Simulation approach. By leading strategieswith different levels of subsidy into the social system and simulatingthe spread of influenza infection on a layout based on the daily life ofevery agent, the research constructs an immunization model depending ondecision making of each agent. As a result, the model suggests thatvaccination subsidy tend to take a positive role and gives decisionsupport to assess the relative impact of public health services forinfluenza control.