ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Do the Benefits of School Closure Outweigh Its Costs?
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Impact of lifting school mask mandates on community SARS-CoV-2 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths: a retrospective observational study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
- COVID-19 monitoring of school personnel through molecular salivary test and dried blood spot analysis.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- School learning modes during the COVID-19 response and pre- to during pandemic mental health changes in a prospective cohort of Canadian adolescents.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Effects of COVID-19-targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions on pediatric hospital admissions in North Italian hospitals, 2017 to 2022: a quasi-experimental study interrupted time-series analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Trends in pediatric nonprescription analgesic/antipyretic exposures during the COVID-19 pandemic.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- Learning strategies of undergraduate nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2023Article
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Abstract
School closure has been a common response to COVID-19. Yet, its implementation has hardly ever been based on rigorous analysis of its costs and benefits. We aim to first illustrate the unintended consequences and side effects of school closure, and then discuss the policy and research implications. This commentary frames evidence from the most recent papers on the topic from a public-health epidemiology and disaster risk reduction perspective. In particular, we argue that the benefits of school closure in terms of reduced infection rates should be better compared with its costs in terms of both short- and long-term damage on the physical, mental, and social well-being of children and society at large.
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