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| Title |
Controlling epidemic spread by social distancing: Do it well or not at all
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-679 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Savi Maharaj, Adam Kleczkowski |
| Abstract |
Existing epidemiological models have largely tended to neglect the impact of individual behaviour on the dynamics of diseases. However, awareness of the presence of illness can cause people to change their behaviour by, for example, staying at home and avoiding social contacts. Such changes can be used to control epidemics but they exact an economic cost. Our aim is to study the costs and benefits of using individual-based social distancing undertaken by healthy individuals as a form of control. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 51 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 16% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Norway | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 24 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 40 | 78% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 12% |
| Scientists | 4 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 225 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 220 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 14% |
| Researcher | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 42 | 19% |
| Unknown | 67 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 17 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 13 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 62 | 28% |
| Unknown | 91 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 97. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 March 2023.
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#432,071
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#389
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#2,018
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#3
of 328 outputs
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