As a medical epidemiologist I would like to know the 'connectivity number' of a settlement so that i can use this variable to predict the risk of transmission of infectious disease.
"As a medical epidemiologist, we are looking on how to standardize the definition of " connectivity".This will help to forecast if a village is more at risk of transmitting infectious diseases .
We defined connectivity as a village connected with another village, we numbered all the village around a specific village that we know was affected by a specific outbreak, we also take into account the distance of this village from the main road in Km, the type of road the village was connected to. The type of roads was classified as:
As a medical epidemiologist I would like to know the 'connectivity number' of a settlement so that i can use this variable to predict the risk of transmission of infectious disease.
"As a medical epidemiologist, we are looking on how to standardize the definition of " connectivity".This will help to forecast if a village is more at risk of transmitting infectious diseases .
We defined connectivity as a village connected with another village, we numbered all the village around a specific village that we know was affected by a specific outbreak, we also take into account the distance of this village from the main road in Km, the type of road the village was connected to. The type of roads was classified as: