IRSHousingModification#

The IRSHousingModification intervention class includes Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) in the simulation. IRS is another key vector control tool in which insecticide is sprayed on the interior walls of a house so that mosquitoes resting on the walls after consuming a blood meal will die. IRS can also have a repellent effect. Because this class is distributed to individuals, it can target subgroups of the population. To target all individuals in a node, use IndoorSpaceSpraying. Do not use IRSHousingModification and IndoorSpaceSpraying together.

At a glance:

  • Distributed to: Individuals

  • Serialized: Yes, if it has been distributed to a person.

  • Uses insecticides: Yes. It can target specific species or other subgroups.

  • Time-based expiration: No

  • Purge existing: Yes. If a new intervention is added to to the individual, the existing intervention of the same name is removed when the new one is added.

  • Vector killing contributes to: Indoor Die After Feeding

  • Vector effects: Repelling and killing

  • Vector sexes affected: Females only

  • Vector life stage affected: Adult

Warning

EMOD simulations models nodes and individuals within nodes; they do not model houses. Therefore, housing modifications are received by individuals, not houses.

Use of this class and other housing modification classes requires caution because they can have unintended effects. For example, individuals in the same household may receive different housing modification interventions. An individual receiving a housing modification intervention who then migrates to another node will continue to receive that intervention. We recommend that you configure your simulation to take these logical inconsistencies into account.

Note

Parameters are case-sensitive. For Boolean parameters, set to 1 for true or 0 for false. Minimum, maximum, or default values of “NA” indicate that those values are not applicable for that parameter.

EMOD does not use true defaults; that is, if the dependency relationships indicate that a parameter is required, you must supply a value for it. However, many of the tools used to work with EMOD will use the default values provided below.

JSON format does not permit comments, but you can add “dummy” parameters to add contextual information to your files. Any keys that are not EMOD parameter names will be ignored by the model.

The table below describes all possible parameters with which this class can be configured. The JSON example that follows shows one potential configuration.

Parameter

Data type

Minimum

Maximum

Default

Description

Example

Cost_To_Consumer

float

0

999999

8

The unit cost per housing modification (unamortized).

 
{
  "Cost_To_Consumer": 10.0
}

Disqualifying_Properties

array of strings

NA

NA

[]

A list of IndividualProperty key:value pairs that cause an intervention to be aborted (persistent interventions will stop being distributed to nodes with these values). See NodeProperties and IndividualProperties parameters for more information. Generally used to control the flow of health care access. For example, to prevent the same individual from accessing health care via two different routes at the same time.

 
{
  "Disqualifying_Properties": [
    "InterventionStatus:LostForever"
  ]
}

Dont_Allow_Duplicates

boolean

0

1

0

If an individual’s container has an intervention, set to true (1) to prevent them from receiving another copy of the intervention. Supported by all intervention classes.

 
{
  "Dont_Allow_Duplicates": 0
}

Insecticide_Name

string

NA

NA

UNINITIALIZED STRING

The name of the insecticide defined in <config.Insecticides> for this intervention. If insecticides are being used, this must be defined as one of those values; if they are not being used this can be empty. It cannot have a value if you did not configure <config.Insecticides>.

 
{
  "Insecticide_Name": "carbamate"
}

Intervention_Name

string

NA

NA

IRSHousingModification

The optional name used to refer to this intervention as a means to differentiate it from others that use the same class.

 
{
  "Intervention_Config": {
    "class": "IRSHousingModification",
    "Intervention_Name": "Indoor DDT spraying"
  }
}

Killing_Config

json object

NA

NA

NA

The configuration of killing efficacy and waning for housing modification. Killing is conditional on the vector not being repelled before feeding. Specify how this effect decays over time using one of the Waning effect classes.

 
{
  "Killing_Config": {
    "Box_Duration": 3650,
    "Initial_Effect": 0.53429,
    "class": "WaningEffectBox"
  }
}

New_Property_Value

string

NA

NA

“”

An optional IndividualProperty key:value pair that will be assigned when the intervention is applied. See NodeProperties and IndividualProperties parameters for more information. Generally used to indicate the broad category of health care cascade to which an intervention belongs to prevent individuals from accessing care through multiple pathways. For example, if an individual must already be taking a particular medication to be prescribed a new one.

 
{
  "New_Property_Value": "InterventionStatus:None"
}

Repelling_Config

json object

NA

NA

NA

Defines a waning effect that determines the probability that a vector is repelled due to the intervention. Specify how this effect decays over time using one of the Waning effect classes.

 
{
  "Repelling_Config": {
    "Box_Duration": 3650,
    "Initial_Effect": 0.0,
    "class": "WaningEffectBox"
  }
}

{
    "Events": [
        {
            "class": "CampaignEvent",
            "Nodeset_Config": {
                "class": "NodeSetAll"
            },
            "Start_Day": 540,
            "Event_Coordinator_Config": {
                "class": "StandardInterventionDistributionEventCoordinator",
                "Target_Demographic": "Everyone",
                "Demographic_Coverage": 0.8,
                "Intervention_Config": {
                    "class": "IRSHousingModification",
                    "Repelling_Config": {
                        "Box_Duration": 3650,
                        "Initial_Effect": 0,
                        "class": "WaningEffectBox"
                    },
                    "Cost_To_Consumer": 8,
                    "Killing_Config": {
                        "Box_Duration": 3650,
                        "Initial_Effect": 0.5,
                        "class": "WaningEffectBox"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "Use_Defaults": 1
}