Monitoring School Absenteeism for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Influenza causes considerable disease burden each year, particularly in children. Monitoring school absenteeism has long been proposed as a surveillance tool of influenza activity in the community, but the practice of school absenteeism could be varying, and the potential of such usage remains unclear.

Objective

The aim of this paper is to determine the potential of monitoring school absenteeism as a surveillance tool of influenza.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of the published literature on the relationship between school absenteeism and influenza activity in the community. We categorized the types of school absenteeism and influenza activity in the community to determine the correlation between these data streams. We also extracted this correla

SUBMITTER: Tsang TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9878370 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature