TY - JOUR
T1 - A community-based sociocultural network approach to controlling covid-19 contagion
T2 - Seven suggestions for improving policy
AU - Hannigan, Timothy R.
AU - Wang, Milo Shaoqing
AU - Steele, Christopher W.J.
AU - Seidel, Marc David L.
AU - Cervantes, Ed
AU - Jennings, P. Devereaux
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Brookings Institution Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We showcase the usefulness of a community-based sociocultural network approach to understanding and combating COVID-19 contagion. Rather than recommending the standard approach to modeling contagion, which uses the individual person as the unit of interest (SEIR-type modeling), we encourage researchers and policymakers to focus on social units (such as households) and to conceive of the social units as being part of a community (a local configuration of a sociocultural network) that is embedded in a regional or national culture. Contagion occurs via culturally conditioned interactions between social units in these community networks. On the basis of this approach and our preliminary simulation results, we offer three policy suggestions for analysts, two for policymakers, and two for practitioners.
AB - We showcase the usefulness of a community-based sociocultural network approach to understanding and combating COVID-19 contagion. Rather than recommending the standard approach to modeling contagion, which uses the individual person as the unit of interest (SEIR-type modeling), we encourage researchers and policymakers to focus on social units (such as households) and to conceive of the social units as being part of a community (a local configuration of a sociocultural network) that is embedded in a regional or national culture. Contagion occurs via culturally conditioned interactions between social units in these community networks. On the basis of this approach and our preliminary simulation results, we offer three policy suggestions for analysts, two for policymakers, and two for practitioners.
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U2 - 10.1353/BSP.2020.0023
DO - 10.1353/BSP.2020.0023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85112686998
SN - 2379-4607
VL - 6
SP - 123
EP - 136
JO - Behavioral Science and Policy
JF - Behavioral Science and Policy
IS - 2
ER -