Social Contact Patterns in Rural and Urban Settings, Mozambique, 2021-2022.

Publication date: Jan 01, 2025

Few sources have reported empirical social contact data from resource-poor settings. To address this shortfall, we recruited 1,363 participants from rural and urban areas of Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic, determining age, sex, and relation to the contact for each person. Participants reported a mean of 8. 3 (95% CI 8. 0-8. 6) contacts per person. The mean contact rates were higher in the rural site compared with the urban site (9. 8 vs 6. 8; p

Concepts Keywords
Mozambique Adolescent
Pandemic Adult
Recruited Aged
Vaccines Child
Child, Preschool
Contact Tracing
coronavirus disease
COVID-19
COVID-19
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
mathematical modeling
Middle Aged
Mozambique
Mozambique
ocial contact patterns
Rural Population
rural populations
SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2
Urban Population
Vaccination
vaccines
viruses
Young Adult

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease MESH COVID-19 pandemic
disease IDO site
disease IDO contact tracing
pathway KEGG Coronavirus disease
disease MESH severe acute respiratory syndrome

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