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Place-based social contact and mixing: a typology of generic meeting places of relevance for infectious disease transmission
- Source :
- Epidemiol Infect
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- SUMMARYThis study aims to develop a typology of generic meeting places based on social contact and mixing of relevance for infectious disease transmission. Data were collected by means of a contact diary survey conducted on a representative sample of the Swedish population. The typology is derived from a cluster analysis accounting for four dimensions associated with transmission risk: visit propensity and its characteristics in terms of duration, number of other persons present and likelihood of physical contact. In the analysis, we also study demographic, socio-economic and geographical differences in the propensity of visiting meeting places. The typology identifies the family venue, the fixed activity site, the family vehicle, the trading plaza and the social network hub as generic meeting places. The meeting place typology represents a spatially explicit account of social contact and mixing relevant to infectious disease modelling, where the social context of the outbreak can be highlighted in light of the actual infectious disease.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Typology
Adult
Male
Risk
Social contact
Epidemiology
Social Environment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Cluster Analysis
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Marketing
Social Behavior
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Sweden
Social work
Infectious disease transmission
Social environment
Outbreak
Middle Aged
Original Papers
Social relation
030104 developmental biology
Infectious Diseases
Geography
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
Female
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14694409
- Volume :
- 145
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Epidemiology and infection
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cd7fbbff7137f7a1ff6436a3381c0e5b