Human mobility patterns predict divergent epidemic dynamics among cities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1766, 2013, Pages

  Dalziel, Benjamin D ^a   Pourbohloul, Babak ^b,c   Ellner, Stephen P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commuting patterns; Epidemic model; Human mobility; Infectious disease; Power law; Transport model

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; COMMUTING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; JOURNEY TO WORK; PATHOGEN; POWER LAW; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

CANADA;

CANADA; CITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSION;

CANADA; CENSUSES; CITIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84894415599     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0763     Document Type: Article

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