The effect of demographic and spatial variability on epidemics: A comparison between Beijing, Delhi, and Los Angeles

2010 5th International Conference on Critical Infrastructure, CRIS 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chen, Jiangzhuo ^a   Huang, Fei ^a   Khan, Maleq ^a   Marathe, Madhav ^a   Stretz, Paula ^a   Xia, Huadong ^a  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact networks; Disease dynamics; Epidemics; Synthetic populations

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; BEIJING , CHINA; CLUSTERING COEFFICIENT; CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY; CONTACT NETWORKS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; DELHI , INDIA; DISEASE DYNAMICS; EPIDEMICS; FLU-LIKE DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LOS ANGELES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SYNTHETIC POPULATIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS; PUBLIC WORKS; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 78649914549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRIS.2010.5617584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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