Using GPS Technology to Quantify Human Mobility, Dynamic Contacts and Infectious Disease Dynamics in a Resource-Poor Urban Environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a,b   Bisanzio, Donal ^a   Stoddard, Steven T ^b,c   Paz Soldan, Valerie ^d   Morrison, Amy C ^c   Elder, John P ^e   Ramirez Paredes, Jhon ^f   Halsey, Eric S ^f   Kochel, Tadeusz J ^g   Scott, Thomas W ^b,c   Kitron, Uriel ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f California   (Peru)

^g NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEIGHBORHOOD; PATHOGENICITY; PERU; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CITIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875978153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058802     Document Type: Article

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