Social Cohesion and Covid-19: an integrative review

P Ware - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Background Nations of considerable wealth and sophisticated healthcare infrastructures
have seen high rates of illness and death from Covid-19. Others with limited economic …

Social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 European countries–evidence from a two-year study

KLM Wong, A Gimma, P Coletti, C Faes… - BMC infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background Most countries have enacted some restrictions to reduce social contacts to slow
down disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. For nearly two years …

On the friendship paradox and inversity: A network property with applications to privacy-sensitive network interventions

V Kumar, D Krackhardt, S Feld - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
We provide the mathematical and empirical foundations of the friendship paradox in
networks, often stated as “Your friends have more friends than you.” We prove a set of …

Did covid-19 enlarge spatial disparities in population dynamics? a comparative, multivariate approach for italy

LS Alaimo, B Nosova, L Salvati - Quality & Quantity, 2023 - Springer
A short-term issue that has been occasionally investigated in the current literature is if (and,
eventually, how) population dynamics (directly or indirectly) driven by COVID-19 pandemic …

Rooted America: Immobility and Segregation of the Intercounty Migration Network

P Huang, CT Butts - American Sociological Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the popular narrative that the United States is a “land of mobility,” the country may
have become a “rooted America” after a decades-long decline in migration rates. This article …

TransCode: Uncovering COVID-19 transmission patterns via deep learning

J Ren, M Liu, Y Liu, J Liu - Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2023 - Springer
Background The heterogeneity of COVID-19 spread dynamics is determined by complex
spatiotemporal transmission patterns at a fine scale, especially in densely populated …

The effects of market-oriented farming on living standards, nutrition, and informal sharing arrangements of smallholder farmers: the case of African indigenous …

C Kubitza, S Hackfort, A Opiyo, C Rauh, CS Stokes… - Food Security, 2024 - Springer
The shift from subsistence to more market-oriented agriculture is viewed as essential to
increase smallholder farmers' welfare. However, its impact on farmers' nutrition and informal …

Book Chapter in Computational Demography and Health

ZW Almquist, C Allen, I Kahveci - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13056, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent developments in computing, data entry and generation, and analytic tools have
changed the landscape of modern demography and health research. These changes have …

[HTML][HTML] Privacy by projection: Federated population density estimation by projecting on random features

Z Zong, M Yang, J Ley, CT Butts… - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We consider the problem of population density estimation based on location data
crowdsourced from mobile devices, using kernel density estimation (KDE). In a …

[HTML][HTML] Engaging Communities in Emerging Infectious Disease Mitigation to Improve Public Health and Safety

MEM Barak, S Wu, G Luria… - Emerging infectious …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for potent community-based tools to improve
preparedness. We developed a community health-safety climate (HSC) measure to assess …