Game Theory Approach in Public Health Research
A special issue of Games (ISSN 2073-4336).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2014)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evolutionary game models of public health; health behavior in complex systems; cooperation and trust in health decisions; health inequities; social networks
Interests: behavioral economics; experimental game theory; positional goods; injury and public health
Interests: mathematical modeling of infectious diseases; application of game theory to epidemic modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue invites original applications of game theoretical approaches to public health. We seek papers using game models to help us understand behavior and decision making across the many domains of public health. Approaches may include equation-based evolutionary games; health behavior game experiments with outcomes affecting individual or collective health; simulation of health decision-making in agent-based models; or related topics. Areas of application include cooperative and non-cooperative health behaviors and both health risk and health protective behavior, at individual and population scales. Early efforts in this area have shown that game theoretic approaches are very productive for understanding vaccination decisions and specifying when socially optimal behavior may conflict with individual utilities. The goal of this special issue is to extend this approach to a wide variety of other public health problems.
Prof. Dr. Steven M. Albert
Dr. Christopher R. Keane
Prof. Dr. Sara J. Solnick
Dr. Eunha Shim
Guest Editors
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