Coughs and sneezes spread diseases: An empirical study of absenteeism and infectious illness
| Autor: | Tim Barmby, Makram Larguem |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Transmission (medicine) Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Communicable Diseases Sneezing Infectious illness Empirical research Cough Nursing Environmental health Workforce Epidemiology Absenteeism Humans Medicine Sick Leave Workplace business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health Economics. 28:1012-1017 |
| ISSN: | 0167-6296 |
| Popis: | This paper incorporates some theoretical ideas from the study of the epidemiology of infectious illness into a model of worker absence. The paper then seeks to quantify such infection effects by examining a personnel dataset which allows us to track daily absence decisions of a group of industrial workers employed in the same factory. We find significant effects of our measure of sickness in the (rest of the) workforce on the absence probabilities of individual workers, and offer a suggestion on how this might be used by managers to gauge the extent of illness transmission within the workplace. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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