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Social, personal or intimate? Cultural differences in distancing behavior in Germany in times of Covid-19

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr Veronika Lipphardt

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Freiburg

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

This project aims to contribute to the improvement of pandemic modeling and therefore investigates what cultural differences exist with regard to proxemic behavior in Germany, and how they change in times of Covid-19. Furthermore, it shall be analysed if mathematical models for modeling the spread of infectious diseases sufficiently take these differences into account.