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Disease surveillance using school absenteeism data in rural Cambodia
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Previous studies in developed countries showed school absenteeism data can serve as a proxy for monitoring infectious disease activities and facilitates early community outbreak detection. However, absenteeism patterns may differ in developing… read more… data were weekly aggregated and sent to Hong Kong, via email for further analysis. Results Implementation of the … Data quality was monitored by occasional onsite school visits by the investigators. A total of 430 students (47.4% … providing the absenteeism data. *Calvin Ka Yeung Cheng E-mail: chengkyc@hku.hk (page number not for citation purpose) …