Influence of network dynamics on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

ABSTRACT: Network epidemiology often assumes that the relationships defining the social network of a population are static. The dynamics of relationships is only taken indirectly into account by assuming that the relevant information to study epidemic spread is encoded in the network obtained, by considering numbers of partners accumulated over periods of time roughly proportional to the infectious period of the disease. On the other hand, models explicitly including social dynamics are often too schematic to provide a reasonable representation of a real population, or so detailed that no general conclusions can be drawn from them. Here, we present a model of social dynamics that is general enough so its parameters can be obtained by fitting data from surveys about sexual behaviour, but that can sti

SUBMITTER: Risau-Gusman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3350717 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature