Relevance of workplace social mixing during influenza pandemics: an experimental modelling study of workplace cultures.

ABSTRACT: Workplaces are one of the most important regular meeting places in society. The aim of this study was to use simulation experiments to examine the impact of different workplace cultures on influenza dissemination during pandemics. The impact is investigated by experiments with defined social-mixing patterns at workplaces using semi-virtual models based on authentic sociodemographic and geographical data from a North European community (population 136 000). A simulated pandemic outbreak was found to affect 33% of the total population in the community with the reference academic-creative workplace culture; virus transmission at the workplace accounted for 10·6% of the cases. A model with a prevailing industrial-administrative workplace culture generated 11% lower incidence than the reference

SUBMITTER: Timpka T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9150599 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature