Network position and health care worker infections

Troy Tassier (), Philip Polgreen and Alberto Segre
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Troy Tassier: Fordham University
Philip Polgreen: University of Iowa
Alberto Segre: University of Iowa

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2017, vol. 12, issue 2, No 5, 277-307

Abstract: Abstract We use a newly collected data set coupled with an agent-based model to study the spread of infectious disease in hospitals. We estimate the average and marginal infections created by various worker groups in a hospital as a function of their network position in order to identify groups most crucial in a hospital-based epidemic. Surprisingly, we find that many groups with primary patient care responsibilities play a small role in spreading an infectious disease within our hospital data set. We also demonstrate that the effect of different network positions can be as important as the effect of different transmission rates for some categories of workers.

Keywords: Infectious disease; Social networks; Vaccine subsidies; Economic epidemiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11403-015-0166-4

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