Selected article for: "population structure size and structure size"

Author: Cori, Anne; Donnelly, Christl A.; Dorigatti, Ilaria; Ferguson, Neil M.; Fraser, Christophe; Garske, Tini; Jombart, Thibaut; Nedjati-Gilani, Gemma; Nouvellet, Pierre; Riley, Steven; Van Kerkhove, Maria D.; Mills, Harriet L.; Blake, Isobel M.
Title: Key data for outbreak evaluation: building on the Ebola experience
  • Document date: 2017_5_26
  • ID: 12t247bn_49
    Snippet: Knowing the sizes of affected populations is important for quantifying the attack rate and informing dynamic transmission models. Census data are likely to be the most reliable source, but may be infrequently collected. Methods based on interpreting satellite imagery [88, 89] can inform population size and structure, although demographic stratifications are not always available. For the West African Ebola epidemic, the most recently available age.....
    Document: Knowing the sizes of affected populations is important for quantifying the attack rate and informing dynamic transmission models. Census data are likely to be the most reliable source, but may be infrequently collected. Methods based on interpreting satellite imagery [88, 89] can inform population size and structure, although demographic stratifications are not always available. For the West African Ebola epidemic, the most recently available age-and genderstratified population census data were from 1996 in Guinea [90] , 2004 in Sierra Leone [91] and 2008 in Liberia [92] .

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