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Exploring Social Care Network Structures

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Sunbelt 2024: Networks and Resilience

Social network analysis has found important applications in organizational behavior, inter-organizational relations, the spread of contagious diseases, mental health, social support, the diffusion of information and animal social organization. Today it has become an international effort with its own professional organizations, textbooks, journals, research centers, training centers and computer programs designed specifically to facilitate the analysis of structural data.

Co-Authors:

Jasmine Fernandez, MQM; Teri Garstka, Ph.D; Michaela Bonnett, MPH; Meaghan Kennedy, MPH

OSB team members Jasmine Fernandez, Michaela Bonnett, and Meaghan Kennedy, joined by Teri Garstka, will be presenting a talk at the 2024 Sunbelt Conference focused on a study identifying the structures within a population of 40 social care networks (e.g., health, social services, education, concrete support, housing, etc) actively operating in communities across states.