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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Health Syst (Basingstoke). 2017 Dec 19;5(3):178–191. doi: 10.1057/hs.2015.2

Table 1. Model parameters: Description and value.

Parameter Description Value Rate of flow
σ1 Period of latency 1 week 1/σ1
σ2 Time to infectiousness 1 week 1/σ2
τ Time to seek treatment 0.5 week 1/τ
q Drug recovery period 1 week 1/q
- Natural recovery period 12 weeks 1/δ
p Probability of treatment 0, 0.1, 0.5, 1
N Population Size 1000 people
β Contact Rate 10 per annum β
λ Force of Infection β×I/N(Models 1,2&3) β×(Iu+It)/N(Models 4, 5&6)