Social, mobility and contact networks in shaping health behaviours and infectious disease dynamics: a scoping review

作者：Zhifeng Cheng, Nick Ruktanonchai, Amy Wesolowski, Sen Pei, Jianghao Wang, Samantha Cockings, Andrew J. Tatem, Shengjie Lai · 发表于：Infectious Diseases of Poverty · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1186/s40249-025-01378-6 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：COVID-19 epidemiological studies、Zoonotic diseases and public health、Complex Network Analysis Techniques

BACKGROUND: The interconnectedness of human society in this modern world can transform localised outbreaks into global pandemics, underscoring the pivotal roles of social, mobility and contact networks in shaping infectious disease dynamics. Although these networks share analogous contagion principles, they are often studied in isolation, hindering the incorporation of behavioural, informational, and epidemiological processes into disease models. This review synthesises current research on the interplay between social, mobility and contact networks in health behaviour contagion and infectious disease transmission. METHODS: We searched Web-of-Science and PubMed from January 2000 to June 2025 for research on health behaviour contagion and information dissemination in social networks, pathogen spread through mobility and contact networks, and their joint impacts on epidemic dynamics. This was first done by a preliminary literature screening based on predefined criteria. With potentially relevant publications retained, we performed keyword co-occurrence network analysis to identify the most common themes in studies. The results guide us to narrow down the reviewing scope to the social, mobility and contact network impacts on informational, behavioural, and epidemiological dynamics. We then further identified and reviewed the literature on these multidimensional network influences. RESULTS: Our review finds that each network type plays a distinct yet interconnected role in shaping...