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ABSTRACT
A drinking model with immigration is constructed. For the model with problem drinking immigration, the model admits only one problem drinking equilibrium. For the model without problem drinking immigration, the model has two equilibria, one is problem drinking-free equilibrium and the other is problem drinking equilibrium. By employing the method of Lyapunov function, stability of all kinds of equilibria is obtained. Numerical simulations are also provided to illustrate our analytical results. Our results show that alcohol immigrants increase the difficulty of the temperance work of the region.
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1. Introduction
Epidemic models become a subject of concern by the bio-mathematical researchers in the modern society. In order to analyse and predict the spread of infectious disease, many epidemic models are studied in [Citation1, Citation7, Citation8, Citation14, Citation25, Citation27, Citation34, Citation37]. In recent years, Huo et al. [Citation6] discussed the global dynamics of a novel HIV/AIDS epidemic model in which they incorporate a new compartment, that is, treatment compartment T. Huo and Zou [Citation12] introduced a tuberculosis model with two kinds of treatment, that is, treatment at home and treatment in hospital. In addition, Zhu et al. [Citation38] concerned with the travelling waves of a reaction–diffusion SIRQ epidemic model with relapse.
It is well known that excessive drinking can lead to many diseases. In China, the drinking rates of male and female are 84.1% and 29.3%, respectively. Alcohol-caused rates of mortality and disability are 1.3% and 3%, respectively [Citation13].
There are many methods to quit drinking, such as self-discipline, persuading by family and friends, drugs or physical therapy. However, up to 70% or 80% of alcohol abusers relapse after treatment [Citation20, Citation26]. Thus, how to quit drinking has become a new field for researchers.
Recently, many authors began to discuss the impact of social environment, fiscal taxes, laws, regulations on smoking or drinking behaviour and the impact of drinking on a number of diseases [Citation10, Citation11, Citation19, Citation24, Citation29, Citation32, Citation35]. Lee et al. [Citation16] introduced a drinking model with two control functions, and analysed the optimal control strategy of the model. In addition, Thomas and Lungu [Citation30] established a two-sex model and studied the impact of alcohol on AIDS. Mushayabasa and Bhunu [Citation21] discussed the effect of heavy alcohol consumption on the transmission dynamics of gonorrhea. Temporary abstainers could relapse by many reasons, such as body pain, intractable insomnia and so on. Cintrón-Arias et al. [Citation3] addressed the role of relapse on drinking dynamics. Xiang et al. [Citation36] studied a drinking model taking into account the compartment of permanent quitting drinker and relapse, Huo and Song [Citation9] studied the more realistic two-stage model for binge drinking problem, where the youths with alcohol problems were divided into those who admit to the problem and those who do not admit. They also considered the direct transfer from the class of susceptible individuals towards the class of admitting drinkers.
With the development of economic globalization, there are more and more trade exchanges and tourism activities among the countries. So, the activities of the foreign population also start to impact the economic, politics and culture. In many countries, wine as a kind of culture gradually is accepted by people. The wine is also becoming a necessity of an enhancing friendship in international trade. Custom and drinking behaviour of the different regions are mixing with each other. Due to the immigration of the foreign population, many models with immigration in different environments were studied [Citation4, Citation17, Citation18, Citation39].
The people in the different areas have different living, including drinking behaviour, beliefs and so on. Immigration will bring these habits to the resettlement areas, and transmit these habits to the people around them. On the other hand, we need to persuade immigrants who have problems in drinking to stop drinking. Hence, immigrants who have problems in drinking have an impact on the drinking environment. They make the work of quitting drinking more difficult to do. So it is meaningful to study the model with immigration.
Motivated by the above, we study a quitting drinking model with immigration. Immigrants are divided into three parts, that is, immigrants who enter into the compartment of moderate drinkers, immigrants who enter into the compartment of light alcoholics and immigrants who enter into the compartment of heavy alcoholics. We mainly consider the effect of immigration on drinking behaviour.
The organization of this paper is as follows: in Section 2, the model and some basic properties of the model are derived and proved. In Section 3, the existence and stability of equilibria are proved. Some numerical simulations are also given in Section 4. The paper ends with a discussion in Section 5.
2. The model formulation
2.1. System description
From research group of treatment and rehabilitation of the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), in the United States, one ‘standard’ drink contains roughly 14 g of pure alcohol, which is found in: 12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually about alcohol; 5 ounces of wine, which is typically about
alcohol; 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which is about
alcohol. The daily alcohol consumption for men is no more than four standard drinks, women are no more than three standard drinks. The ceiling of ‘low-risk’ alcohol consumption per week is 14 standard drinks for men, and 7 standard drinks for women [Citation22]. If a person whose alcohol consumption is more than daily or weekly drinking ceiling, he/she most likely develop to ‘abuse alcohol’ or ‘addicted alcohol’. According to the standard of the NIAAA, similar standard can also be found in [Citation2], the total population is divided into four compartments in this paper. The moderate drinkers (P), that is, those who drink within daily and weekly limits. Light alcoholics (L), that is, the drinkers who drink beyond daily or weekly ceiling and drink 4–5 standard drinks per day, heavy alcoholics (S), that is, the drinkers who drink more than daily and weekly limits and drink more than five standard drinks per day. Treatment compartment (Q), that is, the people who have been received treatments by taking pills or other medical interventions after alcoholism.
Modern medical research shows that drinking a little wine and beer is good for one's health. However, drinking liquor more than two cups will increase the risk of the diabetes [Citation28]. So moderate alcohol consumption is not danger for one's health. Hence, in our model we do not consider death rate caused by drinking in . There are four ways for moderate drinkers to enter into compartment of light alcoholics in our model. First, moderate drinkers increase their own alcohol consumption by themselves (
). Second, moderate drinkers contact with light alcoholics (
). Third, moderate drinkers contact with heavy alcoholics (
). Fourth, moderate drinkers contact with alcoholics in treatment compartment (
). We assume that at any moment time, light alcoholics leave at a rate ω, and enter into compartment of heavy alcoholics or treatment. A proportion p
of these individuals (
) is assumed to be entered into treatment compartment Q and the complementary proportion
, move to compartment of heavy alcoholics S. The people in Q are the people who have been received treatments by taking pills or other medical interventions after alcoholism. These people may relapse drinking again or quit drinking for ever. For the simplicity, we only consider the one relapse, that is, the people in Q go back into L.
The parameter description and transfer diagram are shown in Table and Figure , respectively.
Table 1. State variables and parameters of quit drinking model.
From Figure , the following drinking model is formulated:
(1)
(1) where
and β denote the per-capita effective contact rate (transmission rate). μ denotes the per-capita departure rate from the drinking environment. ρ denotes treatment failure rate. ω denotes the departure rate of light alcoholics which enter into compartment of heavy alcoholics or treatment. φ denotes treating rate of heavy alcoholics. Λ denotes the total recruitment rate only by birth. Π represents the total number of population immigrants. Π is divided into three parts, that is, immigrants who enter into the compartment of moderate drinkers, immigrants who enter into the compartment of light alcoholics and immigrants who enter into the compartment of heavy alcoholics.
and
are the proportion of Π who enter into light alcoholics and heavy alcoholics, respectively.
, are the drinking-related death rate. In addition, light alcoholics are kinds of sensitive people, when they realized the dangers of alcohol, they will choose the treatment quickly; on the contrary, they are more likely to develop into heavy alcoholics or stay in the light alcoholic state. Hence, a proportion p
denotes the treating rate of light alcoholics and the complementary proportion 1−p denote the rate of the light alcoholics develop into heavy alcoholics.
2.2. Positivity and boundedness of solutions
For system (Equation1(1)
(1) ), to ensure the solutions of the system with positive initial conditions remain positive for all t>0, it is necessary to prove that all the variables are positive. Since the solutions
,
,
,
of system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) with initial data
are all inward on the boundaries of the feasible domain, we thus have the following lemma.
Lemma 2.1
If then the solution
of system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) is positive for all t>0.
Lemma 2.2
All feasible solutions of the system (Equation1(1)
(1) ) are bounded and enter the region
Proof.
Let be any solution with positive initial condition, adding the first four equations of
Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ), we have
It follows that
where
represents initial value of the total population. Thus
, as
. Therefore all feasible solutions of system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) enter the region
The vector field along the boundary of Ω points inward, so that Ω is forward invariant. Hence, Ω is positively invariant and it is sufficient to consider solutions of system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) in Ω. Existence, uniqueness and continuation results for system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) hold in this region. It can be shown that
is bounded and all the solutions which start in Ω approach, enter or stay in Ω.
3. Analysis of the model
In this section, we will analyse the qualitative behaviour of system (Equation1(1)
(1) ).
3.1. Existence of equilibria and the basic reproduction number
The equilibrium of system (Equation1(1)
(1) ) satisfies the following system of algebraic equation
(2)
(2) Let
From the first and last two equations in Equation (Equation2
(2)
(2) ), we obtain
(3)
(3) Substituting Equation (Equation3
(3)
(3) ) into the second equation in Equation (Equation2
(2)
(2) ), we have
Then, we get a quadratic equation for L
where
Note that
then we get
. The quadratic equation
always has a positive solution
in Ω. Substituting this value into Equation (Equation2
(2)
(2) ), we get a problem drinking equilibrium
in Ω, with
.
When , the model (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) has no alcohol abuse immigrants. System (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) becomes
(4)
(4) Let L=S=Q=0 in Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ), we can obtain problem drinking-free equilibrium
if
. In the following, the basic reproduction number of system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) when
will be obtained by the next generation matrix method formulated in [Citation31].
Let and
, then system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) can be written as
where
and
The Jacobian matrices of
and
at the problem drinking-free equilibrium
are, respectively,
where
The basic reproduction number, denoted by
is thus given by
where
If , system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) has a unique problem drinking equilibrium
. Thus, we have the following theorem.
Theorem 3.1
If the quit drinking model (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) has a unique problem drinking equilibrium
. If
the drinking model (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) has a problem drinking-free equilibrium
and exists a problem drinking equilibrium
where
is a special form of
when
.
Following Theorem 2 of [Citation31], we also have the following result on the local stability of of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ).
Theorem 3.2
If and
the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is local asymptotically stable.
3.2. Stability of the model
Now, we discuss the global stability of equilibria of our model.
3.2.1. Stability of the equilibria
Theorem 3.3
If and
the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
Proof.
We introduce the following Lyapunov function:
The derivative of V is given by
As we know, , if
, then we can obtain
. Thus, the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of
Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
Remark 3.1
If the condition is not satisfied, the global stability of the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) has not been established. Figure , however, seems to support the idea that the problem drinking-free equilibrium of system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is still global asymptotically stable even in this case.
Theorem 3.4
If and
the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
Proof.
When , the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) satisfies the following system of equations:
(5)
(5) Set
. We introduce the following Lyapunov function:
where
(6)
(6) Then
(7)
(7) Using Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) and the first equation of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ), we obtain
(8)
(8) since
. Similarly, using Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ), we have
(9)
(9) Substituting Equations (Equation8
(8)
(8) ) and (Equation9
(9)
(9) ) into Equation (Equation7
(7)
(7) ) and using Equation (Equation6
(6)
(6) ), we can rearrange
as follows:
where
(10)
(10) Furthermore,
(11)
(11) This is achieved as follows: combining the last two equations of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ) and cancelling the
yield
(12)
(12) Then combining (Equation12
(12)
(12) ) with the second equation of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ) and cancelling the
, we have
Dividing both sides by
, we have
Thus
(13)
(13) Rewriting Equation (Equation13
(13)
(13) ) as
(14)
(14) then
is obtained by multiplying Q on Equation (Equation14
(14)
(14) ). Now we are in a position to simplify
. By Equation (Equation13
(13)
(13) ),
becomes
From the second equation of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ), we have
From the third equation of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ), we obtain
Note that
Define
(15)
(15) Thus
. Furthermore
(16)
(16) From the second equation of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ), we define
(17)
(17) Combining the second and third equations of Equation (Equation5
(5)
(5) ) and cancelling the
and multiplying both sides by φ, we have
Define
(18)
(18) Thus
and
. Now combing
with
in Equation (Equation11
(11)
(11) ) and regrouping, we get
(19)
(19) where
Combining Equation (Equation19
(19)
(19) ) with Equation (Equation16
(16)
(16) ), we get that
(20)
(20) where
By applying the mean inequality
we can show that
. Using Equations (Equation6
(6)
(6) ), (Equation15
(15)
(15) ), (Equation17
(17)
(17) ) and (Equation18
(18)
(18) ) and notation
, we obtain the following inequalities:
(21)
(21)
(22)
(22)
(23)
(23)
(24)
(24)
(25)
(25)
(26)
(26)
(27)
(27) From Equations (Equation21
(21)
(21) ) to (Equation27
(27)
(27) ), we can easily see that
, it can be shown that
, are non-positive. Substituting Equations (Equation21
(21)
(21) )–(Equation27
(27)
(27) ) into Equation (Equation20
(20)
(20) ), we conclude that
for all P>0,L>0,S>0,Q>0. Furthermore,
if and only if
By LaSalle's Invariance Principle [Citation15, Citation23],
is globally asymptotically stable with respect to Ω. This completes the proof.
Remark 3.2
If the condition is not satisfied, the global stability of the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) has not been established. However, Figure seems to support the idea that the problem drinking equilibrium of system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) is still global asymptotically stable even in this case.
Similarly to the proof of Theorem 3.4, we can easily obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 3.5
If and
the problem drinking equilibrium
of system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
Remark 3.3
If the condition is not satisfied, the global stability of the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) has not been established. However, Figure seems to support the idea that the problem drinking equilibrium of system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is still global asymptotically stable even in this case.
4. Numerical simulation
In this section, some numerical results of system (Equation1(1)
(1) ) are presented for supporting the our analytic results. We choose China as the region of the numerical simulation. In China, the ratio of male and female drinking were 84.1% and 29.3%, respectively. Sixty-five per cent of the drinking people is unhealthy drinking, with their main problem is excessive drinking [Citation13]. According to the China National Bureau of Statistics, the foreign citizens living in mainland China for more than three months have been over 590,000 in 2010. From global status report on alcohol and health [Citation5], we know 45% of the world's population has never consumed alcohol (men: 35%; women: 55%; including Muslims and Buddhists) globally. In addition, 13.1% (men: 13.8%; women: 12.5%) have not consumed alcohol during the past year. Also mentioned in World Health Statistics [Citation33], we can find that the data of global natural mortality, the male natural mortality rate is 19% and female natural mortality rate is 12.9%, respectively. After a simple calculation we can get the natural mortality rate of the global is 0.1595. Now, we give the data in Table .
Table 2. State variables and parameters of alcohol model.
Using the data in , we can calculate that . According to the survey, we will consider 1.3 billion, 0.8 billion, 0.52 billion, 0.11 billion as the initial value of the four compartments.
As is shown in Figure , we perform numerical simulations to illustrate the result of Theorem 3.3. Choosing and other parameters using in Table , we derive that
, we can clearly see that the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable from image. In this case, the condition
holds. If we choose
and other data follows Table , we can calculate that
. Then we can also get the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of system (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable (Figure ).
Figure 2. When and
, the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
![Figure 2. When R0<1 and max{ξ(Λ+Π)/μ,α(Λ+Π)/μ,β(Λ+Π)/μ}<min{μ+di,i=1,2,3}, the problem drinking-free equilibrium E0 of Equation (Equation4(4) dPdt=Λ+Π−εP−ξPL−αPS−βPQ−μP,dLdt=εP+ξPL+αPS+βPQ+ρQ−(μ+d1+ω)L,dSdt=(1−p)ωL−(μ+d2+φ)S,dQdt=pωL+φS−(μ+d3+ρ)Q.(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.](/cms/asset/559ff9d8-ea5f-42bd-ba1b-97a3584b4583/tjbd_a_1337243_f0002_c.jpg)
Figure 3. When and
, the problem drinking-free equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
![Figure 3. When R0<1 and ξ(Λ+Π)/μ>max{μ+di,i=1,2,3}, the problem drinking-free equilibrium E0 of Equation (Equation4(4) dPdt=Λ+Π−εP−ξPL−αPS−βPQ−μP,dLdt=εP+ξPL+αPS+βPQ+ρQ−(μ+d1+ω)L,dSdt=(1−p)ωL−(μ+d2+φ)S,dQdt=pωL+φS−(μ+d3+ρ)Q.(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.](/cms/asset/b20f1db6-1729-4160-b130-5ad0d2139f5b/tjbd_a_1337243_f0003_c.jpg)
Figure 4. The problem drinking equilibrium of Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
![Figure 4. The problem drinking equilibrium E∗ of Equation (Equation1(1) dPdt=Λ+(1−q1−q2)Π−εP−ξPL−αPS−βPQ−μP,dLdt=q1Π+εP+ξPL+αPS+βPQ+ρQ−(μ+d1+ω)L,dSdt=q2Π+(1−p)ωL−(μ+d2+φ)S,dQdt=pωL+φS−(μ+d3+ρ)Q,N=P+L+S+Q,(1) ) is globally asymptotically stable.](/cms/asset/6b688211-8848-48fc-b3fd-918e5eed24c6/tjbd_a_1337243_f0004_c.jpg)
Figure 5. When , the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
![Figure 5. When ε=ξ=α=0,β=0.5, the problem drinking equilibrium E∗ of Equation (Equation1(1) dPdt=Λ+(1−q1−q2)Π−εP−ξPL−αPS−βPQ−μP,dLdt=q1Π+εP+ξPL+αPS+βPQ+ρQ−(μ+d1+ω)L,dSdt=q2Π+(1−p)ωL−(μ+d2+φ)S,dQdt=pωL+φS−(μ+d3+ρ)Q,N=P+L+S+Q,(1) ) is globally asymptotically stable.](/cms/asset/461ddca0-963e-4d92-8000-54336df390ee/tjbd_a_1337243_f0005_c.jpg)
Figure 6. When , the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
![Figure 6. When q1=q2=ε=α=ξ=0,β=0.5, the problem drinking equilibrium E∗∗ of Equation (Equation4(4) dPdt=Λ+Π−εP−ξPL−αPS−βPQ−μP,dLdt=εP+ξPL+αPS+βPQ+ρQ−(μ+d1+ω)L,dSdt=(1−p)ωL−(μ+d2+φ)S,dQdt=pωL+φS−(μ+d3+ρ)Q.(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.](/cms/asset/dcbcb76d-43c6-4ca9-8553-5ee7f59ea843/tjbd_a_1337243_f0006_c.jpg)
Figure 7. When , the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation4
(4)
(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.
![Figure 7. When q1=q2=ε=0, the problem drinking equilibrium E∗∗ of Equation (Equation4(4) dPdt=Λ+Π−εP−ξPL−αPS−βPQ−μP,dLdt=εP+ξPL+αPS+βPQ+ρQ−(μ+d1+ω)L,dSdt=(1−p)ωL−(μ+d2+φ)S,dQdt=pωL+φS−(μ+d3+ρ)Q.(4) ) is globally asymptotically stable.](/cms/asset/5e870ce8-03cf-40f5-8e53-e06fc3c9a6d3/tjbd_a_1337243_f0007_c.jpg)
If we use all the data in Table and choose . We can clearly see the problem drinking equilibrium
of Equation (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) is globally asymptotically stable (Figure ). If we choose
and other data follow Table , we can see Theorem 3.4 is correct (Figure ).
In the Figure , we perform numerical simulations to illustrate the result of Theorem 3.5. If and other parameters follow Table , we can clearly see the problem drinking equilibrium
is globally asymptotically stable. If we only assume
, then
, we can also get the problem drinking equilibrium
is globally asymptotically stable (Figure ).
5. Discussion
We have formulated a drinking model with constant immigration. We obtain the following results: if , system (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) has no problem drinking-free equilibrium. That is, the drinking model (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) does not have the state of problem drinking-free. System (Equation1
(1)
(1) ) has a unique problem drinking equilibrium. By constructing Lyapunov function, we prove the global stability of the problem drinking equilibrium under certain conditions. However, if
, system (2.1) exists two equilibia, that is, problem drinking-free equilibrium and problem drinking equilibrium. By means of the next generation matrix [Citation31], we obtain their basic reproduction number
which plays a crucial role. By constructing Lyapunov function, we prove the stability of all the equilibria under certain conditions.
Many researchers [Citation11, Citation36, Citation38] focus on the influence of parameters on the basic reproductive number. In this paper, we consider the effect of constant immigrants to alcohol problems. It is conceivable that when drinking immigrants increase, the number of alcoholics who are influenced by drinking immigrants will also increase. Hence, the basic reproduction number is increasing (Figure ). Thus, we can draw the following conclusions: alcohol immigrants not only affect an area's drinking culture, but also increase the difficulty of the temperance work of the region. So we should restrict the alcoholics to immigrate in order to quit drinking.
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