Rothenberg R, Narramore J
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA.
Sex Transm Dis. 1996 Jan-Feb;23(1):24-9. doi: 10.1097/00007435-199601000-00007.
Many of the concepts of social network analysis have been tacit assumptions of sexually transmitted disease control efforts for decades. With the advent of AIDS in the 1980s, an overt rapprochement between these two fields--previously separated by culture, context, and language--was made. Social network constructs have immediate appeal to disease control workers, who view many diseases as following the conduits of social interactions. STDs and HIV, in turn, provide network analysts and those who model disease transmission with substantial sets of empirical data that test and illuminate theory. Disease control efforts can be enhanced by incorporating network concepts overtly into current practices. Such concepts offer a path to better delineation of groups at risk, to a better understanding of the interaction of personal risk taking and the social context, and to evaluation of control mechanisms.
几十年来，社会网络分析的许多概念一直是性传播疾病防控工作中隐含的假设。随着20世纪80年代艾滋病的出现，这两个此前因文化、背景和语言而分隔的领域开始了公开的和解。社会网络结构对疾病防控工作者具有直接吸引力，他们将许多疾病视为沿着社会互动渠道传播。反过来，性传播疾病和艾滋病毒为网络分析师以及那些对疾病传播进行建模的人提供了大量实证数据，用于检验和阐明理论。通过将网络概念公开纳入当前实践，可以加强疾病防控工作。这些概念为更好地界定高危群体、更好地理解个人风险行为与社会背景之间的相互作用以及评估控制机制提供了一条途径。
