Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Besculides, Melanie ^a,b   Heffernan, Richard ^a   Mostashari, Farzad ^a   Weiss, Don ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVALUATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SCHOOLS;

EID: 27244446072     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-105     Document Type: Article

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