Some considerations concerning the challenge of incorporating social variables into epidemiological models of infectious disease transmission

Global Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 438-448

  Barnett, Tony ^a,b   Fournié, Guillaume ^c   Gupta, Sunetra ^d   Seeley, Janet ^a,e  

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

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e MRC(UK) UVRI   (Uganda)

Author keywords

hope; infectious diseases; social factors; structural drivers ; translational epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOPE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HOPE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84924799036     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1007155     Document Type: Article

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