Exploring human mixing patterns based on time use and social contact data and their implications for infectious disease transmission models.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing availability of data on social contact patterns and time use provides invaluable information for studying transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. Social contact data provide information on the interaction of people in a population whereas the value of time use data lies in the quantification of exposure patterns. Both have been used as proxies for transmission risks within in a population and the combination of both sources has led to investigate which contacts are more suitable to describe these transmission risks.

Methods

We used social contact and time use data from 1707 participants from a survey conducted in Flanders, Belgium in 2010-2011. We calculated weighted exposure time and social contact matrices to analyze age- and gender-specific

SUBMITTER: Hoang TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9764639 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature