Social networks and health : models, methods, and applications /

Providing a comprehensive introduction to how social networks influence health behaviours, this book enables researchers to understand how network data are collected and processed; and how to calculate appropriate metrics and models used to understand network influences on health behaviour.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Valente, Thomas W.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Social networks > Health aspects. Health behavior. Psychology > Simulation methods. Social Support Health Behavior Health Status Models, Psychological Habitudes sanitaires. Psychologie > Méthodes de simulation. HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues. MEDICAL > Public Health. MEDICAL > Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General. MEDICAL > Diseases. MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery. Health behavior Social networks > Health aspects Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Models
Introduction
History
Methods
Ego- and personal-network effects
Measures
Centrality
Groups
Positions
Network-level measures
Applications
Exponential random graph models, P, and actor oriented models
Diffusion and innovations
Network interventions
Summary.