Mobile phone based social relationship identification for target vaccination in mobile healthcare

Authors:
Bowu Zhang;Syed Muhammad Gilani;Dengyuan Wu;Xiuzhen Cheng;Rongfang Bie
Affiliations:
The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;Beijing Normal University Beijing, China
Venue:
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In general, vaccination is believed to be the best method to protect humans against diseases. Many works suggest that outbreaks can be controlled by target vaccination strategies without resorting to the traditional mass vaccination. In this paper, we explore the use of mobile phone records for extracting user social relationship information, which is then employed in target vaccination. In particular, we investigate the influence of vaccination through the social network on disease control. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to consider the diffusion of vaccination influence. We evaluate our approach over real world data and simulation results indicate that our approach outperforms well employed methods by reducing not only the number of infections but also the cost of vaccination.