Some considerations concerning the challenge of incorporating social variables into epidemiological models of infectious disease transmission
Incorporation of 바카라 사이트˜social바카라 사이트™ variables into epidemiological models remains a challenge
Abstract
Incorporation of 바카라 사이트˜social바카라 사이트™ variables into epidemiological models remains a challenge. Too much detail and models cease to be useful; too little and the very notion of infection 바카라 사이트“ a highly social process in human populations 바카라 사이트“ may be considered with little reference to the social. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim proposed that the scientific study of society required identification and study of 바카라 사이트˜social currents바카라 사이트™. Such 바카라 사이트˜currents바카라 사이트™ are what we might today describe as 바카라 사이트˜emergent properties바카라 사이트™, specifiable variables appertaining to individuals and groups, which represent the perspectives of social actors as they experience the environment in which they live their lives. Here we review the ways in which one particular emergent property, hope, relevant to a range of epidemiological situations, might be used in epidemiological modelling of infectious diseases in human populations. We also indicate how such an approach might be extended to include a range of other potential emergent properties to represent complex social and economic processes bearing on infectious disease transmission.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme
Citation
Barnett T, Fournié G, Gupta S, Seeley J (2015). Some considerations concerning the challenge of incorporating social variables into epidemiological models of infectious disease transmission. Glob Public Health. 10(4):438-48.