کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2813511 1569437 2015 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Six challenges in measuring contact networks for use in modelling
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
شش چالش در اندازه گیری شبکه های تماس برای استفاده در مدل سازی
کلمات کلیدی
شبکه های، الگوهای تماس انتقال بیماری، مدل سازی ریاضی، اندازه گیری شبکه، جمع آوری اطلاعات مدل هدایت شده
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Challenges in measuring contact networks for use in modelling are identified.
• Challenges include defining a “contact” and measuring properties of interactions.
• Practical challenges include missing data and bounding network studies.
• Approaches to and implications of overcoming challenges are suggested.

Contact networks are playing an increasingly important role in epidemiology. A contact network represents individuals in a host population as nodes and the interactions among them that may lead to the transmission of infection as edges. New avenues for data collection in recent years have afforded us the opportunity to collect individual- and population-scale information to empirically describe the patterns of contact within host populations. Here, we present some of the current challenges in measuring empirical contact networks. We address fundamental questions such as defining contact; measurement of non-trivial contact properties; practical issues of bounding measurement of contact networks in space, time and scope; exploiting proxy information about contacts; dealing with missing data. Finally, we consider the privacy and ethical issues surrounding the collection of contact network data.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Epidemics - Volume 10, March 2015, Pages 72–77
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