Modeling Individual Vulnerability to Communicable Diseases: A Framework and Design

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1016-1025

  Bian, Ling ^a   Huang, Yuxia ^b   Mao, Liang ^c   Lim, Eunjung ^d   Lee, Gyoungju ^e   Yang, Yan ^a   Cohen, Murray ^f   Wilson, Deborah ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Chungju National University   (South Korea)

^f Consultants in Disease and Injury Control Inc ^*  (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

daytime, nighttime, and pastime populations; individual based epidemiology model; mobility; social network

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; MODELING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864555948     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.674844     Document Type: Article

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