ArticlePloS one2016
Economic Evaluation of Individual School Closure Strategies: The Hong Kong 2009 H1N1 Pandemic.
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- A Systematic Review of the Costs Relating to Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Against Infectious Disease Outbreaks.Applied health economics and health policy · 2021Pooled it
- School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2020Pooled it
- Multi-source agent-based modeling to optimize influenza mitigation strategies in Hong Kong.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The role of economic evaluation in modelling public health and social measures for pandemic policy: a systematic review.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2024Article
- Economic evaluations of interventions against viral pandemics: a scoping review.Public health · 2022Article
- Implications of the school-household network structure on SARS-CoV-2 transmission under school reopening strategies in England.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Costs and benefits of interventions aimed at major infectious disease threats: lessons from the literature.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2020Review
- An introduction to economic studies, health emergencies, and COVID-19.Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2020Article
- Brief Research Report on Adolescent Mental Well-Being and School Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- The cost-effectiveness of social distancing measures for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in a highly-populated country: A case study in Indonesia.Travel medicine and infectious diseaseArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSchool closures as a means of containing the spread of disease have received considerable attention from the public health community. Although they have been implemented during previous pandemics, the epidemiological and economic effects of the closure of individual schools remain unclear. METHODOLOGY: This study used data from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Hong Kong to develop a simulation model of an influenza pandemic with a localised population structure to provide scientific justifications for and economic evaluations of individual-level school closure strategies.
findingsThe estimated cost of the study's baseline scenario was USD330 million. We found that the individual school closure strategies that involved all types of schools and those that used a lower threshold to trigger school closures had the best performance. The best scenario resulted in an 80% decrease in the number of cases (i.e., prevention of about 830,000 cases), and the cost per case prevented by this intervention was USD1,145; thus, the total cost was USD1.28 billion.
conclusionThis study predicts the effects of individual school closure strategies on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Hong Kong. Further research could determine optimal strategies that combine various system-wide and district-wide school closures with individual school triggers across types of schools. The effects of different closure triggers at different phases of a pandemic should also be examined.
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