Abstract
Guidelines available to school administrators to support school closure decisions during influenza outbreaks are usually not evidence-based. Using empirical data on absentee rates of elementary school students in Japan, we developed a simple and practical algorithm for determining the optimal timing of school closures for control of influenza outbreaks.
Publication types
-
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
-
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
-
Absenteeism
-
Algorithms
-
Child
-
Disease Outbreaks* / prevention & control
-
Evidence-Based Practice / statistics & numerical data*
-
Guidelines as Topic
-
Humans
-
Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
-
Influenza, Human / prevention & control
-
Influenza, Human / transmission
-
Japan / epidemiology
-
Population Surveillance
-
Schools
-
Students