Simulating school closure policies for cost effective pandemic decision making
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Simulating school closure policies for cost effective pandemic decision making
BACKGROUND Around the globe, school closures were used sporadically to mitigate the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, such closures can detrimentally impact economic and social life. METHODS Here, we couple a decision analytic approach with a mathematical model of influenza transmission to estimate the impact of school closures in terms of epidemiological and cost effectiveness. Our meth...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-449