The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission
This study uses social network and spatial analytical methods simultaneously to understand cholera transmission in rural Bangladesh. Both have been used separately to incorporate context into health studie...
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| author | Sophia Giebultowicz Mohammad Ali Mohammad Yunus Michael Emch |
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| description | This study uses
social network and spatial analytical methods
simultaneously to understand cholera
transmission in rural Bangladesh. Both have been
used separately to incorporate context into
health studies, but using them together is a new
and recent approach. Data include a spatially
referenced longitudinal demographic database
consisting of approximately 200,000 people and
a database of all laboratory-confirmed cholera
cases from 1983 to 2003. A complete
kinship-based network linking households is
created, and distance matrices are also
constructed to model spatial relationships. A
spatial error-social effects model tested for
cholera clustering in socially linked households
while accounting for spatial factors. Results
show that there was social clustering in five
out of twenty-one years while accounting for
both known and unknown environmental variables.
This suggests that environmental cholera
transmission is significant and social networks
also influence transmission, but not as
consistently. Simultaneous spatial and social
network analysis may improve understanding of
disease transmission. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-00c3cb25fad04cfd95ce9fdc1ba7c3722025-02-03T01:00:57ZengWileyInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases1687-708X1687-70982011-01-01201110.1155/2011/604372604372The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera TransmissionSophia Giebultowicz0Mohammad Ali1Mohammad Yunus2Michael Emch3Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Saunders Hall, Campus Box 3220, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220, USAInternational Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, San 4-8, Nakseongdae-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-919, Republic of KoreaInternational Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, BangladeshDepartment of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Saunders Hall, Campus Box 3220, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220, USAThis study uses social network and spatial analytical methods simultaneously to understand cholera transmission in rural Bangladesh. Both have been used separately to incorporate context into health studies, but using them together is a new and recent approach. Data include a spatially referenced longitudinal demographic database consisting of approximately 200,000 people and a database of all laboratory-confirmed cholera cases from 1983 to 2003. A complete kinship-based network linking households is created, and distance matrices are also constructed to model spatial relationships. A spatial error-social effects model tested for cholera clustering in socially linked households while accounting for spatial factors. Results show that there was social clustering in five out of twenty-one years while accounting for both known and unknown environmental variables. This suggests that environmental cholera transmission is significant and social networks also influence transmission, but not as consistently. Simultaneous spatial and social network analysis may improve understanding of disease transmission.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/604372 |
| spellingShingle | Sophia Giebultowicz Mohammad Ali Mohammad Yunus Michael Emch The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases |
| title | The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission |
| title_full | The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission |
| title_fullStr | The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission |
| title_short | The Simultaneous Effects of Spatial and Social Networks on Cholera Transmission |
| title_sort | simultaneous effects of spatial and social networks on cholera transmission |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/604372 |
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