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Would school closure for the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic have been worth the cost?: a computational simulation of Pennsylvania

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, May 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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7 news outlets
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1 policy source
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6 X users

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Title
Would school closure for the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic have been worth the cost?: a computational simulation of Pennsylvania
Published in
BMC Public Health, May 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-11-353
Pubmed ID
Authors

Shawn T Brown, Julie HY Tai, Rachel R Bailey, Philip C Cooley, William D Wheaton, Margaret A Potter, Ronald E Voorhees, Megan LeJeune, John J Grefenstette, Donald S Burke, Sarah M McGlone, Bruce Y Lee

Abstract

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic, policy makers debated over whether, when, and how long to close schools. While closing schools could have reduced influenza transmission thereby preventing cases, deaths, and health care costs, it may also have incurred substantial costs from increased childcare needs and lost productivity by teachers and other school employees.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Japan 1 <1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 119 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 26 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 18%
Student > Master 18 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 19 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 16%
Social Sciences 13 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 12 10%
Mathematics 11 9%
Computer Science 9 7%
Other 31 25%
Unknown 27 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 February 2021.
All research outputs
#497,238
of 22,758,963 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#462
of 14,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,705
of 111,633 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#5
of 203 outputs
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