Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy

Authors

  • Yasushi Ohkusa IDSC, NIID
  • Yoshinori Yasui IDSC, NIID
  • Tamie Sugawara IDSC, NIID
  • Nobuhiko Okabe IDSC, NIID
  • Kiyosu Taniguchi IDSC, NIID
  • Kazunori Oishi IDSC, NIID

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4492

Abstract

We constructed the School Absenteeism Surveillance System (SASSy) and the Nursery School Absenteeism Surveillance System (NSASSy), and proved that thses are quite useful for monitoring of influenza outbreak in schools and it will be gold standard of surveillance for school children in Japan. This study also showed incidence rate of influenza in children at schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools, and proved the highest incidence was in the first grade of the elementary school. This is the first finding using such the huge number of subjects, which is more than 2 million.

Author Biography

Yasushi Ohkusa, IDSC, NIID

Dr.Yasushi Ohkusa is a senior researcher of Infectious Diseases Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan. He is working for development of syndromic surveillance system, the mathematical modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis for vaccines.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Ohkusa, Y., Yasui, Y., Sugawara, T., Okabe, N., Taniguchi, K., & Oishi, K. (2013). Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4492

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Poster Presentations