Social contact networks and mixing among students in K-12 Schools in Pittsburgh, PA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Guclu, Hasan ^a,b   Read, Jonathan ^c,d   Vukotich, Charles J ^e   Galloway, David D ^a   Gao, Hongjiang ^f   Rainey, Jeanette J ^f   Uzicanin, Amra ^f   Zimmer, Shanta M ^e   Cummings, Derek A T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL MEDENIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MIDDLE SCHOOL; PRIMARY SCHOOL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNITED STATES; PENNSYLVANIA; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT;

HUMANS; PENNSYLVANIA; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS;

EID: 84961644476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151139     Document Type: Article

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