  Community involvement and the preventive behavior of households are
considered to be at the heart of vector-control strategies. In this work, we
consider a simple theoretical model that enables us to take into account human
behaviors that may interfere with vector control. The model reflects the
trade-off between perceived costs and observed efficacy. Our theoretical
results emphasize that households may reduce their protective behavior in
response to mechanical elimination techniques piloted by a public agent,
leading to an increase of the total number of mosquitoes in the surrounding
environment and generating a barrier for vector-borne diseases control. Our
study is sufficiently generic to be applied to different arboviral diseases. It
also shows that vector-control models and strategies have to take into account
human behaviors.
