Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases.

ABSTRACT: Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is typically more frequent, of greater intensity, and is more likely to involve people of different age groups than contact occurring in the general community. Understanding household structure in different populations is therefore fundamental to explaining patterns of disease transmission in these populations. Indigenous populations in Australia tend to live in larger households than non-Indigenous populations, but limited data are available on the structure of these households, and how they differ between remote and urban communities. We have developed a novel approach to the collection of household structure data, suitable for use in a variety of contexts, which p

SUBMITTER: Vino T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5660877 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature