SEIR Evolutionary Game Model Applied to the Evolution and Control of the Medical Waste Disposal Crisis in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- (1)
- What are the internal evolutionary processes and characteristics of the game behavior between local governments and disposal enterprises?
- (2)
- How do different behavioral strategies between local governments and disposal firms affect the evolutionary process and path of speculative psychology of medical institutions?
- (3)
- Which measures should be taken to enable the medical waste disposal crisis in China to be efficiently controlled?
2. Literature Review
2.1. Medical Waste Research
2.2. Medical Waste Disposal Crisis Research
3. Problem Description and Underlying Assumptions
4. Model Construction and Analysis
4.1. SEIR Evolutionary Game Model Construction
4.2. Stability Analysis of Game Strategies of Local Governments and Disposal Enterprises
4.3. Threshold Solution and Stability Analysis of Equilibrium Point
4.3.1. Zero-Infection Balance Point for Speculative Psychology in Medical Institutions
4.3.2. The Propagation Balance Point of Speculative Psychology in Medical Institutions
5. Situational Simulation and Numerical Simulation Analysis
5.1. The Numerical Simulation Results under Scenario 1
5.2. The Numerical Simulation Results under Scenario 2
5.3. The Numerical Simulation Results under Scenario 3
5.4. The Numerical Simulation Results under Scenario 4
5.5. Results Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Waste Category | Components |
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Infectious waste | Medical waste carrying pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of spreading infectious diseases |
Damaging waste | Abandoned medical sharps that can stab or cut the human body |
Pathological waste | Human waste and medical laboratory animal carcasses generated in the process of treatment |
Pharmaceutical waste | Obsolete, deteriorated, or contaminated discarded drugs |
Chemical waste | Corrosive, waste chemicals |
Players | Disposal Enterprises | ||
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High-Quality Disposal | Low-Quality Disposal | ||
Local Governments | Strict regulation | , | , |
Relaxed regulation | , | , |
Equilibrium Point | ||
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Ma, G.; Ding, J.; Lv, Y. SEIR Evolutionary Game Model Applied to the Evolution and Control of the Medical Waste Disposal Crisis in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability 2022, 14, 11396. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811396
Ma G, Ding J, Lv Y. SEIR Evolutionary Game Model Applied to the Evolution and Control of the Medical Waste Disposal Crisis in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability. 2022; 14(18):11396. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811396
Chicago/Turabian StyleMa, Guojian, Juan Ding, and Youqing Lv. 2022. "SEIR Evolutionary Game Model Applied to the Evolution and Control of the Medical Waste Disposal Crisis in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak" Sustainability 14, no. 18: 11396. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811396