The impact of school building conditions on student absenteeism in upstate New York

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1679-1686

  Simons, Elinor ^a   Hwang, Syni An ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Edward F ^a,b   Kielb, Christine ^a   Lin, Shao ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; FUNGUS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; RODENT; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ABSENTEEISM; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FUNGI; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEW YORK; RODENTIA; SCHOOLS; VENTILATION;

EID: 77956239980     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.165324     Document Type: Article

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