Use of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Reduce Transmission of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (pH1N1) in Pennsylvania Public Schools

Journal of School Health

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 281-289

  Miller, Jeffrey R ^a   Short, Vanessa L ^b   Wu, Henry M ^a   Waller, Kirsten ^b   Mead, Paul ^c   Kahn, Emily ^a   Bahn, Beth A ^b   Dale, Jon W ^b   Nasrullah, Muazzam ^a   Walton, Sabrina E ^a   Urdaneta, Veronica ^d   Ostroff, Stephen ^b   Averhoff, Francisco ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Influenza; Prevention and control; Schools

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PANDEMICS; PENNSYLVANIA; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84875070104     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: 17461561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josh.12028     Document Type: Article

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