Publications by authors named "Eleanor Fg Neal"
Article Synopsis
- * A systematic review and meta-analysis of surveys from low- and middle-income countries revealed that contact rates do not decline with age as they do in high-income settings, and large, intergenerational households are common in lower-income areas.
- * The findings indicate that differences in how people interact in various income settings could impact the spread of diseases and the success of control strategies.
Article Synopsis
- - This study analyzes how contact patterns for spreading respiratory pathogens, like SARS-CoV-2, vary between low/middle-income and high-income countries, using data from 28,503 participants and over 413,000 contacts.
- - Unlike high-income settings where contact rates decrease with age, low-income settings show similar contact levels across ages, notably featuring larger, multi-generational households that engage more often in home-based contacts.
- - These differing contact patterns have significant implications for understanding how respiratory viruses spread and the effectiveness of public health interventions, particularly the differences in social behavior across income levels.
