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2012
- handle: 10670/1.hptko5
- isbn: 978-1-107-00983-7
- hal: hal-02806077
- PRODINRA: 182993
- WOS: 000324875500002
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Support systems, Social Networking, Social Networks, Social Social networking Social support systems Papers Wellness Personal health Networks, Social Biography--HealthCiter ce document
Charanpal Dhanjal et al., « Dissemination of health information within social networks », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10670/1.hptko5
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In this paper, we investigate, how information about a common food born health hazard, known as Campylobacter, spreads once it was delivered to a random sample of individuals in France. The central question addressed here is how individual characteristics and the various aspects of social network influence the spread of information. A key claim of our paper is that information diffusion processes occur in a patterned network of social ties of heterogeneous actors. Our percolation models show that the characteristics of the recipients of the information matter as much if not more than the characteristics of the sender of the information in deciding whether the information will be transmitted through a particular tie. We also found that at least for this particular advisory, it is not the perceived need of the recipients for the information that matters but their general interest in the topic.