The relevance of social network analysis on the epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases Importância da análise de redes sociais na epidemiologia e na prevenção das doenças sexualmente transmissíveis

• Main Authors: André Reynaldo Santos Périssé (Author), José Augusto da Costa Nery (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Historically, the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) has been based on individual attributes and behavior. However, STD constitute a good example of diseases that depend on personal contacts for dissemination. Social network analysis is a relatively new technique that studies the in...