Publication: How the individual human mobility spatio-temporally shapes the disease transmission dynamics
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2020-12-01
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20452322
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Mahidol University
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Scientific Reports. Vol.10, No.1 (2020)
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Suttikiat Changruenngam, Dominique J. Bicout, Charin Modchang How the individual human mobility spatio-temporally shapes the disease transmission dynamics. Scientific Reports. Vol.10, No.1 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-68230-9 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/58407
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How the individual human mobility spatio-temporally shapes the disease transmission dynamics
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© 2020, The Author(s). Human mobility plays a crucial role in the temporal and spatial spreading of infectious diseases. During the past few decades, researchers have been extensively investigating how human mobility affects the propagation of diseases. However, the mechanism of human mobility shaping the spread of epidemics is still elusive. Here we examined the impact of human mobility on the infectious disease spread by developing the individual-based SEIR model that incorporates a model of human mobility. We considered the spread of human influenza in two contrasting countries, namely, Belgium and Martinique, as case studies, to assess the specific roles of human mobility on infection propagation. We found that our model can provide a geo-temporal spreading pattern of the epidemics that cannot be captured by a traditional homogenous epidemic model. The disease has a tendency to jump to high populated urban areas before spreading to more rural areas and then subsequently spread to all neighboring locations. This heterogeneous spread of the infection can be captured by the time of the first arrival of the infection (Tfi) , which relates to the landscape of the human mobility characterized by the relative attractiveness. These findings can provide insights to better understand and forecast the disease spreading.