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Control Model on Transmission Dynamic of Conjunctivitis During Harmattan in Public Schools

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Developing countries are prone to some outburst of epidemic because of the poor sanitary apparatus in existence in the public schools where more - likely those children from the underdogs will be seen. Conjunctivitis is one of such communicable disease in western sub – Sahara Africa because of the topography, level of education in the rural communities and the degree of poverty that rocks an average family. Model for transmission dynamics of acute conjunctivitis is proposed and analyzed both analytically and numerically. The model is reformulated as an optimal control problem taking into consideration the effect of proper sanitation and training of the educators; and Maximum Principle was employed to obtain the necessary conditions for existence of optimal control. The basic reproduction number is obtained using the next generation matrix and spectral radius which is less than one when computed. The result shows an agreement of the analytical and numerical solution; in addition, if the sanitation that includes the serenity of the school environment, conduciveness of the classrooms, personal hygiene are dually observed in and outside the school, and education of the caregivers which includes the teachers, menders, parents and even the pupils are articulated properly, the infected pupils shall be decreased drastically over time.

DOI 10.11648/j.acm.20190802.11
Published in Applied and Computational Mathematics (Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2019)
Page(s) 29-36
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Conjunctivitis, Stability, Optimal Control, Mathematical Model

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  • Department of Mathematics, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ikwo, Abakaliki, Nigeria

  • Department of Mathematics, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ikwo, Abakaliki, Nigeria

  • Department of Mathematics, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ikwo, Abakaliki, Nigeria

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    Michael Uchenna, Offia Akachukwu, Elebute Kafayat. Control Model on Transmission Dynamic of Conjunctivitis During Harmattan in Public Schools. Appl Comput Math. 2019;8(2):29-36. doi: 10.11648/j.acm.20190802.11

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