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Local mobility and the spatial dynamics of measles in a rural area of Kenya

โœ Scribed by Alan Ferguson; Johan Leeuwenburg

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
489 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
0343-2521

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โœฆ Synopsis

Population mobility at different scales is important in the analysis of contagious diseases. The role of local mobility among young children is related to spatial and temporal patterns of measles in part of rural Kenya. The dynamics of measles are examined over a period of 3 1/2 years, during which there were two epidemics; the path of the second of these epidemics is studied, using a spatial averaging technique (the centroid). Limited local mobility of children under the age of five, related to low levels of susceptibility provides a probable explanation of the slow diffusion of measles epidemics.

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