The Impact of Vaccination Behavior on Disease Spreading Based on Complex Networks

Vaccination is an effective way to prevent and control the occurrence and epidemic of infectious diseases. However, many factors influence whether the residents decide to get vaccinated or not, such as the efficacy and side effects while individuals hope to obtain immunity through vaccination. In this paper, the public attitude toward vaccination is investigated, especially how it is influenced by the public estimation of vaccines efficacy and reliance on their neighbors' vaccination behavior. We find that improving people's trust in the vaccination greatly benefits increasing the vaccination rate and accelerating the vaccination process. Counterintuitively, if the individual's attitude towards vaccination is more reliant on his neighbors' vaccination behavior, more individuals will get vaccinated, and the vaccination process will speed up. Besides, individuals are more willing to get vaccinated if they have more neighbors.