Household Effects of School Closure during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA (Emerg Infect Dis., abstract, edited)
[Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, free full PDF Document (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.091827
Suggested citation for this article: Gift TL, Palekar RS, Sodha SV, Kent CK, Fagan RP, Archer WR, et al. Household effects of school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Aug; [Epub ahead of print]
Household Effects of School Closure during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas L. Gift, Rakhee S. Palekar, Samir V. Sodha, Charlotte K. Kent, Ryan P. Fagan, W. Roodly Archer, Paul J. Edelson, Tiffany Marchbanks, Achuyt Bhattarai, David Swerdlow, Stephen Ostroff, and Martin I. Meltzer, for the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group1
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.L. Gift, S.V. Sodha, C.K. Kent, R.P. Fagan, W.R. Archer, P.J. Edelson, A. Bhattarai, D. Swerdlow, M.I. Meltzer); Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA (R.S. Palekar); and Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (T. Marchbanks, S. Ostroff)
1 Members of the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group are listed at the end of this article.
To determine the effects of school closure, we surveyed 214 households after a 1-week elementary school closure because of pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Students spent 77% of the closure days at home, 69% of students visited at least 1 other location, and 79% of households reported that adults missed no days of work to watch children.
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[Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, free full PDF Document (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.091827
Suggested citation for this article: Gift TL, Palekar RS, Sodha SV, Kent CK, Fagan RP, Archer WR, et al. Household effects of school closure during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Aug; [Epub ahead of print]
Household Effects of School Closure during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas L. Gift, Rakhee S. Palekar, Samir V. Sodha, Charlotte K. Kent, Ryan P. Fagan, W. Roodly Archer, Paul J. Edelson, Tiffany Marchbanks, Achuyt Bhattarai, David Swerdlow, Stephen Ostroff, and Martin I. Meltzer, for the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group1
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.L. Gift, S.V. Sodha, C.K. Kent, R.P. Fagan, W.R. Archer, P.J. Edelson, A. Bhattarai, D. Swerdlow, M.I. Meltzer); Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA (R.S. Palekar); and Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (T. Marchbanks, S. Ostroff)
1 Members of the Pennsylvania H1N1 Working Group are listed at the end of this article.
To determine the effects of school closure, we surveyed 214 households after a 1-week elementary school closure because of pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Students spent 77% of the closure days at home, 69% of students visited at least 1 other location, and 79% of households reported that adults missed no days of work to watch children.
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