School closure as an influenza mitigation strategy: How variations in legal authority and plan criteria can alter the impact

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Potter, Margaret A ^a   Brown, Shawn T ^a,b   Cooley, Phillip C ^c   Sweeney, Patricia M ^a   Hershey, Tina B ^a   Gleason, Sherrianne M ^a   Lee, Bruce Y ^a,d   Keane, Christopher R ^a   Grefenstette, John ^a   Burke, Donald S ^a  

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

^b PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LEGAL ASPECT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SCHOOL; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; SCHOOLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868684257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-977     Document Type: Article

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