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Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases
Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is typically more frequent, of greater intensity, and is more likely to involve people of different age groups than contact occurring in the general community. Understanding h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29085755 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3958 |
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author | Vino, Thiripura Singh, Gurmeet R. Davison, Belinda Campbell, Patricia T. Lydeamore, Michael J. Robinson, Andrew McVernon, Jodie Tong, Steven Y.C. Geard, Nicholas |
author_facet | Vino, Thiripura Singh, Gurmeet R. Davison, Belinda Campbell, Patricia T. Lydeamore, Michael J. Robinson, Andrew McVernon, Jodie Tong, Steven Y.C. Geard, Nicholas |
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description | Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is typically more frequent, of greater intensity, and is more likely to involve people of different age groups than contact occurring in the general community. Understanding household structure in different populations is therefore fundamental to explaining patterns of disease transmission in these populations. Indigenous populations in Australia tend to live in larger households than non-Indigenous populations, but limited data are available on the structure of these households, and how they differ between remote and urban communities. We have developed a novel approach to the collection of household structure data, suitable for use in a variety of contexts, which provides a detailed view of age, gender, and room occupancy patterns in remote and urban Australian Indigenous households. Here we report analysis of data collected using this tool, which quantifies the extent of crowding in Indigenous households, particularly in remote areas. We use these data to generate matrices of age-specific contact rates, as used by mathematical models of infectious disease transmission. To demonstrate the impact of household structure, we use a mathematical model to simulate an influenza-like illness in different populations. Our simulations suggest that outbreaks in remote populations are likely to spread more rapidly and to a greater extent than outbreaks in non-Indigenous populations. |
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spelling | pubmed-56608772017-10-30 Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases Vino, Thiripura Singh, Gurmeet R. Davison, Belinda Campbell, Patricia T. Lydeamore, Michael J. Robinson, Andrew McVernon, Jodie Tong, Steven Y.C. Geard, Nicholas PeerJ Anthropology Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is typically more frequent, of greater intensity, and is more likely to involve people of different age groups than contact occurring in the general community. Understanding household structure in different populations is therefore fundamental to explaining patterns of disease transmission in these populations. Indigenous populations in Australia tend to live in larger households than non-Indigenous populations, but limited data are available on the structure of these households, and how they differ between remote and urban communities. We have developed a novel approach to the collection of household structure data, suitable for use in a variety of contexts, which provides a detailed view of age, gender, and room occupancy patterns in remote and urban Australian Indigenous households. Here we report analysis of data collected using this tool, which quantifies the extent of crowding in Indigenous households, particularly in remote areas. We use these data to generate matrices of age-specific contact rates, as used by mathematical models of infectious disease transmission. To demonstrate the impact of household structure, we use a mathematical model to simulate an influenza-like illness in different populations. Our simulations suggest that outbreaks in remote populations are likely to spread more rapidly and to a greater extent than outbreaks in non-Indigenous populations. PeerJ Inc. 2017-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5660877/ /pubmed/29085755 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3958 Text en ©2017 Vino et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Anthropology Vino, Thiripura Singh, Gurmeet R. Davison, Belinda Campbell, Patricia T. Lydeamore, Michael J. Robinson, Andrew McVernon, Jodie Tong, Steven Y.C. Geard, Nicholas Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
title | Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
title_full | Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
title_fullStr | Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
title_full_unstemmed | Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
title_short | Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
title_sort | indigenous australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases |
topic | Anthropology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29085755 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3958 |
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