Quantifying travel behavior for infectious disease research: A comparison of data from surveys and mobile phones

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wesolowski, Amy ^a,b   Stresman, Gillian ^c   Eagle, Nathan ^b,d   Stevenson, Jennifer ^c,e,f   Owaga, Chrispin ^e   Marube, Elizabeth ^e   Bousema, Teun ^c,g   Drakeley, Christopher ^c   Cox, Jonathan ^c   Buckee, Caroline O ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^d Northeastern University   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL PHONES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; TRAVEL;

EID: 84904501076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05678     Document Type: Article

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