Social area analysis in community medicine.

Social area analysis in community medicine.

There is an acknowledged need for better information to guide resource allocation and service planning in the health services. Despite the recognition of the important role of socioeconomic factors, difficulties with the appropriate presentation of daya have so far proved insuperable. Social area analysis (SAA), which is a generic name for a number of methods employing census and other data to ...

Textbook of Community Medicine – Preventive and Social Medicine

Community Analysis of Social Network in MMOG

Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) have attracted millions of players in recent years. In MMOG, players organize themselves voluntarily and fulfill collective tasks together. Because each player can join different activities, one player may show different social relationship with others in different activities. In the paper we proposed the incremental label propagation algorithm to search ...

Community analysis in dynamic social networks

Due to the growing popularity of social networking platforms, the analysis of online communities became in recent years a popular topic in different research fields. However, an aspect that has received only little attention is how the temporal aspects of social networks can be studied. This thesis bridges the gap and deals with the analysis of community structures in large social networks and ...

Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS

There is a long tradition of describing cities through a focus on the characteristics of their residents. A brief review of the history of this approach to describing cities highlights some persistent challenges. To fit within the constraints of widely used multivariate data reduction techniques and thematic cartography populations are classified. Historically, this classification has been guid...