Rosemarie Shephard, Justine Uy, Victoria Otterman, Claire Betker, Harman S Sandhu, Lynda Tjaden, Emma Apatu, Erica Di Ruggiero, Richard Musto, Jasmine Pawa, Malcolm Steinberg, Elspeth Payne, Lily Fang
The Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada: Opportunities and Recommendations for Modernization
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
models social interaction dynamics powerful tools understanding efficiency information spread robustness task allocation social insect colonies workers spatially distribute within colony spatial heterogeneity degree shd plays vital role contact dynamics influencing information spread task allocation used agentbased models explore factors affecting spatial heterogeneity information flow including number task groups variation spatial arrangements levels task switching study 1 impact multiple task groups shd contact dynamics information spread 2 impact task switching shd contact dynamics models show strong linear relationship dynamics shd contact dynamics exists different initial conditions multipletaskgroup model without task switching reveals impacts number spatial arrangements task locations information transmission taskswitching model allows taskswitching probability contact individuals model indicates taskswitching mechanism enables dynamical state taskrelated spatial fidelity individual level spatial fidelity assist colony redistributing workforce consequent effects dynamics spatial heterogeneity degree spatial fidelity task group proportion workers perform task preferential walking styles toward task location analysis shows task switching rate two tasks exponentially decreasing function spatial fidelity contact rate higher spatial fidelity leads agents aggregating task location reducing contact groups thus making task switching difficult results provide important insights mechanisms generate spatial heterogeneity deepen understanding spatial heterogeneity impacts task allocation social interaction information spread