Global Stability of Pneumococcal Pneumonia with Awareness and Saturated Treatment

Table 1

Description of parameters.

Parameter	Description	Value/day^−1	Ref
A	Recruitment by birth/immigration	5	Assd
β	Maximal effective contact rate before antibiotic resistance awareness	0.0417	[32]
	Maximal reduced effective contact rate due to media alerts	0.0046	Assd
	Contact rate of aware susceptible with infective individuals	0.000007498	Assd
	Rate of relapse encountered in administering treatment	0.00145	Assd
μ	Natural mortality rate		[2]
m	Efficiency of awareness through media coverage	0.5	Assd
δ	Excess death due to pneumococcal pneumonia	0.1	[33, 34]
ξ	Loss of information about disease by aware susceptible individuals	0.3	[15]
	Recovery rate due to treatment	0.9	[35]
D	Number of days delayed in receiving appropriate treatment	1–14 days	[20]
τ	Rate of delay to receive appropriate treatment	0.2703	Assd
p	Probability of acquiring resistance during treatment		[30]
υ	Rate at which unaware susceptible individuals become aware of antibiotic resistance	0.0029	Assd