Human Mobility and Spatial Disease Dynamics
Published 22 April 2009
Dirk Brockmann
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This work analyzes multiscale human mobility networks based on a proxy network of dispersing US dollar bills incorporated in a model to produce real-time epidemic forecasts that projected the spatial spread of the recent outbreak of Influenza A(H1N1).
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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction and Motivation Quantitative Assessments of Human Mobility Statistical Properties and Scaling Laws in Multi-Scale Mobility Networks Spatially Extended Epidemic Models Spatial Models References
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