TIME SERIES ANALYSIS ON THE INCIDENCE OF INFLUENZA IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DURING WINTER SEASON USING TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY: Study on the relationship between indoor air environment and the incidence of influenza in schools@@@学校におけるインフルエンザ発生と室内空気環境の関係に関する研究
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS ON THE INCIDENCE OF INFLUENZA IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DURING WINTER SEASON USING TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY: Study on the relationship between indoor air environment and the incidence of influenza in schools@@@学校におけるインフルエンザ発生と室内空気環境の関係に関する研究
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基于温度和湿度的冬季小学流感发病率时间序列分析:学校室内空气环境与流感发病率关系研究@@@室内空气环境与流感发病率关系研究在学校@@@
DOI:
10.3130/aije.82.257
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
Go Iwashita
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作者:
Go Iwashita
In schools, sick leave might to be a significant index of productivity. Elementary schools are thought to be amplifiers for infections in influenza in communities. In School Health and Safety Act, children are told to stay home in case of an epidemic of influenza. The humidity ratio had been reported to be a critical factor for infection of influenza. However the relationship between the really measured indoor thermal factors and the incidence of influenza is rarely investigated. Then the room temperature and relative humidity were continuously measured in twelve classrooms in a public elementary school in Tokyo. And the period of analysis was set as 3 winter seasons from 2005/2006 to 2007/2008. The average values of the room temperature per every winter season in all classrooms were met the School Environmental Sanitary Standard. On the other hand, the average values of indoor relative humidity in some classrooms were lower than the standard value. The high correlation coefficients were not obtained in the relationship between the average values of indoor thermal factors, i.e., air temperature, relative humidity, and humidity ratio per every winter season in each classroom, and the number of absence on account of flu. Focusing on the period when absence on flue had occurred, the room temperature of two days before the absence had a high correlation with the number of absence on flu. .