ArticlePloS one2015
School's Out: Seasonal Variation in the Movement Patterns of School Children.
Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Age-dependent effects in the transmission and control of COVID-19 epidemics.Nature medicine · 2020Article
- The impact of regular school closure on seasonal influenza epidemics: a data-driven spatial transmission model for Belgium.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Analysis of multi-level spatial data reveals strong synchrony in seasonal influenza epidemics across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.PloS one · 2018Article
- Structure and consistency of self-reported social contact networks in British secondary schools.PloS one · 2018Article
- Incorporating social contact data in spatio-temporal models for infectious disease spread.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2017Article
- Contact, Travel, and Transmission: The Impact of Winter Holidays on Influenza Dynamics in the United States.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2017Article
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Abstract
School children are core groups in the transmission of many common infectious diseases, and are likely to play a key role in the spatial dispersal of disease across multiple scales. However, there is currently little detailed information about the spatial movements of this epidemiologically important age group. To address this knowledge gap, we collaborated with eight secondary schools to conduct a survey of movement patterns of school pupils in primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom. We found evidence of a significant change in behaviour between term time and holidays, with term time weekdays characterised by predominately local movements, and holidays seeing much broader variation in travel patterns. Studies that use mathematical models to examine epidemic transmission and control often use adult commuting data as a proxy for population movements. We show that while these data share some features with the movement patterns reported by school children, there are some crucial differences between the movements of children and adult commuters during both term-time and holidays.
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