期刊
EPIDEMICS
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 72-77出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2014.08.006
关键词
Networks; Contact patterns; Disease transmission; Mathematical modelling; Network measurement; Model-driven data collection
资金
- National Institute for Health Research [NIHR-CDF-2001-04-019]
- RAPIDD Program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homland Security
- Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Royal Society
- ESRC [ES/J011266/1]
- Wellcome Trust from Fogarty International Centre [093488/Z/10/Z, R01TW008246-01]
- Medical Research Council (UK) [MR/J008761/1]
- RAPIDD program from Fogarty International Centre
- Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security
- ESRC [ES/J011266/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/J008761/1, MR/K010174/1, MR/J013862/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Wellcome Trust [093488/Z/10/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/J011266/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K010174/1, MR/K010174/1B, MR/J013862/1, MR/J008761/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [CDF-2011-04-019, HPRU-2012-10080] Funding Source: researchfish
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. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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