Publications by authors named "Reinaldo O Santos"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how human mobility influences malaria transmission in remote areas like the Amazon, aiming for effective control and elimination strategies.
- It employs a network survey using respondent-driven sampling to gather data from key informants in 45 communities across Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, focusing on community connectivity and mobility patterns.
- The research has received ethical approval from various universities and plans to share results with the involved communities at the study's conclusion.
[A structural method to assess the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in school environmentsMétodo estructural para examinar el curso de la pandemia por el SARS-CoV-2 en ambientes escolares].
Silvio Salej Higgins Adrian Hinojosa Luna Andreia Maria Pinto Rabelo Reinaldo Onofre Dos Santos Vanessa Cardoso Ferreira
Rev Panam Salud Publica
August 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed several dilemmas for managers in the public sector, with school reopening being among the most complex decisions. The present article presents a microsimulation model of the pandemic course considering various scenarios within the confines of a classroom in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. For that, a susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model was integrated with a random graph model, associating epidemiological characteristics with sociometric and sociodemographic factors.
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