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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20544-y
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- Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study, National Institute of General Medical Sciences Grant [U54GM111274]
- CDC contract [75D30119C05765]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62003230]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [1082204112289]
Mathematical and computational modeling approaches are increasingly used in analyzing and predicting infectious disease epidemics. A data-driven approach has been proposed to generate effective population-level contact matrices, improving the realism in addressing complex public health questions.
Mathematical and computational modeling approaches are increasingly used as quantitative tools in the analysis and forecasting of infectious disease epidemics. The growing need for realism in addressing complex public health questions is, however, calling for accurate models of the human contact patterns that govern the disease transmission processes. Here we present a data-driven approach to generate effective population-level contact matrices by using highly detailed macro (census) and micro (survey) data on key socio-demographic features. We produce age-stratified contact matrices for 35 countries, including 277 sub-national administratvie regions of 8 of those countries, covering approximately 3.5 billion people and reflecting the high degree of cultural and societal diversity of the focus countries. We use the derived contact matrices to model the spread of airborne infectious diseases and show that sub-national heterogeneities in human mixing patterns have a marked impact on epidemic indicators such as the reproduction number and overall attack rate of epidemics of the same etiology. The contact patterns derived here are made publicly available as a modeling tool to study the impact of socio-economic differences and demographic heterogeneities across populations on the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
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