Health-related workplace absenteeism among full-time workers - United states, 2017-18 influenza season

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 68, Issue 26, 2019, Pages 577-582

  Groenewold, Matthew R ^a   Burrer, Sherry L ^a   Ahmed, Faruque ^b   Uzicanin, Amra ^b   Luckhaupt, Sara E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PANDEMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85069270812     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6826a1     Document Type: Article

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