Would school closure for the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic have been worth the cost?: A computational simulation of Pennsylvania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brown, Shawn T ^a,b   Tai, Julie H Y ^a,c   Bailey, Rachel R ^a,c   Cooley, Philip C ^f   Wheaton, William D ^f   Potter, Margaret A ^a   Voorhees, Ronald E ^a,d   LeJeune, Megan ^a,c,e   Grefenstette, John J ^a   Burke, Donald S ^a   McGlone, Sarah M ^a,c   Lee, Bruce Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Allegheny County Health Department   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PENNSYLVANIA; SCHOOLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956210487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-353     Document Type: Article

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