ReviewEpidemiology and infection2012
Close encounters of the infectious kind: methods to measure social mixing behaviour.
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of Social Contact Surveys to Inform Transmission Models of Close-contact Infections.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2019Pooled it
- Positive network assortativity of influenza vaccination at a high school: implications for outbreak risk and herd immunity.PloS one · 2014Trial
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- Comparison of contact diaries and wearable proximity sensors in measuring household contacts in low- and middle-income countries.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Social contacts and mixing patterns in rural Gambia.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Preserving friendships in school contacts: An algorithm to construct synthetic temporal networks for epidemic modelling.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
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- Methods for measuring short-term geographical mobility used in infectious disease research: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Social contact patterns relevant for infectious disease transmission in Cambodia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Making Space in Geographical Analysis.Geographical analysis · 2023Article
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- Capturing Household Structure and Mobility within and between Remote Aboriginal Communities in Northern Australia Using Longitudinal Data: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact in urban Blantyre, Malawi.Epidemics · 2022Article
- Patterns of human social contact and mask wearing in high-risk groups in China.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2022Article
- Reconstructing social mixing patterns via weighted contact matrices from online and representative surveys.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Longitudinal social contacts among school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Bay Area Contacts among Kids (BACK) study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Using contact tracing from interlocking diaries to map mood contagion along network chains.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
A central tenet of close-contact or respiratory infection epidemiology is that infection patterns within human populations are related to underlying patterns of social interaction. Until recently, few researchers had attempted to quantify potentially infectious encounters made between people. Now, however, several studies have quantified social mixing behaviour, using a variety of methods. Here, we review the methodologies employed, suggest other appropriate methods and technologies, and outline future research challenges for this rapidly advancing field of research.
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