Integration of Spatial and Social Network Analysis in Disease Transmission Studies

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1004-1015

  Emch, Michael ^a   Root, Elisabeth D ^b   Giebultowicz, Sophia ^a   Ali, Mohammad ^c   Perez Heydrich, Carolina ^d   Yunus, Mohammad ^e  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^e International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh   (India)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; cholera; neighborhood effects; shigellosis; social networks

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; NEIGHBORHOOD; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BANGLADESH; MATLAB;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84864554109     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.671129     Document Type: Article

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