Representative Contact Diaries for Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Taiwan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Fu, Yang chih ^a   Wang, Da Wei ^b   Chuang, Jen Hsiang ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARY BASED SURVEY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867060261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045113     Document Type: Article

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