Disease Model: User Help
How to use this model
Initializing the Model:
- First use the switches and sliders to set your desired initial settings:
- initial-population determines how many people will be in the model at the beginning
- num-doctors determines the how many people will be doctors
- limit-travel determines whether to add barriers between different regions of the "world"
- travel-openings determines how many gaps there will be in the barriers
- Then click Setup Model. You should see people appear in the black "world."
Running the Model:
- To start the model, click Run/Pause.
- To pause the model, click Run/Pause again.
- To re-initialize the model with your current settings, click Setup Model again.
- If you want to get the default settings, refresh the model page by pressing Ctrl-R on Windows, Command-R on a Mac.
- You can run the model faster and slower using the slider on the top of the "world."
Adding Prevention and Treatment:
- In order to administer vaccination and medication, you must add doctors before initializing the model.
- You can use these sliders to try different methods to keep the disease from spreading. These settings can be changed while the model is running.
- hygiene determines how much infected people use measures such as hand-washing and covering their mouths when sneezing and coughing
- vaccination will allow the doctors to vaccinate susceptible people when it is turned on
- medication will allow the doctors to administer medication that will help infected people to recover
Modifying the Disease:
- If you want to change nature of the disease, you can use the sliders below the graph. These settings can be changed while the model is running.
- infectiousness determines how contagious the disease is
- days-to-recover determines how quickly people will get better and become immune
- fatality-rate determines how likely a person is to die from the disease