Close encounters of the infectious kind: Methods to measure social mixing behaviour

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2117-2130

  Read, J M ^a   Edmunds, W J ^b   Riley, S ^c   Lessler, J ^d   Cummings, D A T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact diary; infectious disease control; mathematical modelling; proximity; social mixing; social network; transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MIXING BEHAVIOR;

CONTACT TRACING; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84869479331     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000842     Document Type: Review

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