Community structure in social networks: Applications for epidemiological modelling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kitchovitch, Stephan ^a   Liò, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INFECTION RATE; PERCEPTION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RISK PERCEPTION; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960609103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022220     Document Type: Article

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