The spread of awareness and its impact on epidemic outbreaks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6872-6877

  Funk, Sebastian ^a   Gilad, Erez ^a   Watkins, Chris ^a   Jansen, Vincent A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral response; Mathematical model; Rumor spread; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TIME;

AWARENESS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66149153486     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810762106     Document Type: Article

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