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Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
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School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more… Egger et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 26 and threshold levels in absenteeism … Health Threats Journal JR Egger et al. 2011, 4:s78 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 27 … -
Adding GIS and Earth Observations to Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes an integrated modeling, sensing, and information system for forecasting atmospheric dust episodes and monitoring PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations that aggravate respiratory diseases in the American southwest.… atmospheric dust episodes and monitoring PM2.5 and PM10 con- centrations that aggravate respiratory diseases in the … professionals to provide a broader geographical con- text for medical data (e.g. chief complaints, diagno- … public health decision support. In: IGARSS, 2006, Denver, CO, July 30-Aug.2. [2] Morain, S. and W. Sprigg. 2005. …