Evaluating Spatial Interaction Models for Regional Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT: Simple spatial interaction models of human mobility based on physical laws have been used extensively in the social, biological, and physical sciences, and in the study of the human dynamics underlying the spread of disease. Recent analyses of commuting patterns and travel behavior in high-income countries have led to the suggestion that these models are highly generalizable, and as a result, gravity and radiation models have become standard tools for describing population mobility dynamics for infectious disease epidemiology. Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa may not conform to these models, however; physical accessibility, availability of transport, and cost of travel between locations may be variable and severely constrained compared to high-income settings, informal labor movements rat

SUBMITTER: Wesolowski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4497594 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature