Open AccessDescription and Evaluation of the 2009–2010 Pennsylvania Influenza Sentinel School Monitoring System
Author(s) -
Vanessa L. Short,
Chandra Marriott,
Stephen M. Ostroff,
Kirsten Waller
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2011.300132
Subject(s) - absenteeism , medicine , representativeness heuristic , public health , influenza like illness , demography , family medicine , statistics , psychology , nursing , immunology , social psychology , virus , mathematics , sociology
We described and evaluated the 2009-2010 Pennsylvania Influenza Sentinel School Monitoring System, a voluntary sentinel network of schools that report data on school absenteeism and visits to the school nurse for influenza-like illness (ILI).