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Impact of Fixed Allocation of Health Resources on Diabetes in Kenya: Mathematical Modelling Approach

Received: 14 September 2022    Accepted: 24 October 2022    Published: 12 November 2022
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Diabetes is a human disease that can lead to blindness, strokes, and amputations of people’s limbs. The effects of diabetes are not limited to the sickness it causes in the human body, it also has a major influence on the worldwide economy, as evidenced by the fact that over 500 billion USD is spent each year on the diagnosis, care, and treatment of diabetes. Diabetes is gradually becoming a menace in Kenya, considering that the number of deaths from diabetes and diabetes-related illnesses have increased in the recent time. With the rapid increase in the reported diabetic cases, it is only a matter of time before the Healthcare facilities and resources become overburdened. This study investigates the effect of a fixed number of available health resources on the progression of diabetes. To represent the dynamics of diabetes with a constant hospitalization rate, a system of ordinary differential equations is formulated. The model is established to be well-posed, positive, and bounded, and the local stability of the equilibrium points is established. The reproduction number is calculated using the next generation matrix. The model is numerically solved and the results are graphed using the explicit Runge-Kutta (4,5)-th order. Improvements in the susceptible class’s lifestyle quality diminish migration from the susceptible subpopulation to the diabetic population.

Published in Advances in Applied Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.aas.20220704.14
Page(s) 125-134
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Keywords

Diabetes, Hospitalisation, Mathematical Modelling, Per Capita Hospitalisation Rate

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  • Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

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