Exploiting human resource requirements to infer human movement patterns for use in modelling disease transmission systems: An example from Eastern Province, Zambia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Alderton, Simon ^a   Noble, Jason ^a   Schaten, Kathrin ^b   Welburn, Susan C ^b   Atkinson, Peter M ^c,d,e   Amblard, Frederic ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND USE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SIMULATION; TRAVEL; WATER SUPPLY; ZAMBIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; RURAL POPULATION;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84947775849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139505     Document Type: Article

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