Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

A scalable online tool for quantitative social network assessment reveals potentially modifiable social environmental risks

  • Amar Dhand,
  • Charles C. White,
  • Catherine Johnson,
  • Zongqi Xia,
  • Philip L. De Jager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06408-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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An individual’s social network—their friends, family, and acquaintances—is important for their health, but existing tools for assessing social networks have limitations. Here, the authors introduce a quantitative social network assessment tool on a secure open-source web platform and show its utility in a nation-wide study.