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Impact of Paid Sick Leave Policy: A Social Planner's Perspective

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tetano

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Am J Public Health. 2013 Nov 14. [Epub ahead of print]
Impact of Paid Sick Leave Policy: A Social Planner's Perspective.
Marathe A, Chen J, Eubank S, Liao S, Ma Y.
Source

Achla Marathe, Jiangzhuo Chen, and Stephen Eubank are with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Achla Marathe is also with the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Stephen Eubank is also with the Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech. Shaojuan Liao is with Freddie Mac, Washington, DC. Yifei Ma is with Teradata.
Abstract

In their article, Kumar et al.1 examine the impact of paid sick days on influenza attack rates in workplaces using an agent-based model. Their findings show that paid sick leave reduces influenza transmission and hence the burden of illness in workplaces. The authors would like to point out the work by Liao et al.,2,3 which studies the impact of paid sick leave on the spread of influenza from a social planner's perspective. As opposed to focusing on workplaces, this study measures the impact of the paid sick leave on an entire society. The study measures attack rates, medical costs, workers' productivity and social welfare under a variety of scenarios. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print November 14, 2013: e1. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301639).

PMID:
24228673
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24228673
 
Re: Impact of Paid Sick Leave Policy: A Social Planner's Perspective

Am J Public Health. 2013 Nov 14. [Epub ahead of print]
Kumar et al. Respond.
Kumar S, Grefenstette JJ, Galloway D, Albert SM, Burke DS.
Source

Supriya Kumar and Donald S. Burke are with the Department of Epidemiology Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. John J. Grefenstette and David Galloway are with the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Steven M. Albert is with the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.
Abstract

We thank Marathe et al. for alerting us to their study of the impact of paid sick leave on the burden of influenza,1 published in the International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications. We regret that we did not have the opportunity to discuss our results in light of their study, which was published while our recent article was in press. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print November 14, 2013: e1. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301676).

PMID:
24228647
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24228647
 
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