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Am J Epidemiol 2003; 157:870-873.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Invited Commentary: Attendance and Absence as Markers of Health Status—The Example of Active and Passive Cigarette Smoking

Anthony J. Alberg1,2,, Gregory B. Diette1,3 and Jean G. Ford1,2,3

1 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
2 Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD.
3 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Received for publication November 20, 2002; accepted for publication January 22, 2003.

Abbreviations: Abbreviation: ETS, environmental tobacco smoke.

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   INTRODUCTION
 
Absence from work and school is an important social issue. Four percent of workers in the United States were absent during an average workweek in 2001 (1). Absences from work can lead to lost productivity and can influence the likelihood that a person keeps a job (2). Among the more than 50 million children aged 5–17 years in the United States in 1998, 18 percent missed 6 or more days of school because of illness or injury (3). Absence from school can adversely affect school achievement (4, 5) and hence educational aspirations and eventual educational attainment (6, 7).

Attendance patterns result from a complex array of factors, including health status as a major contributor, and are thus potential markers of health status (8). In families with children, a close interrelation exists between parent and child attendance. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   ACTIVE CIGARETTE SMOKING AND ATTENDANCE
 

   A NEW GENERATION
 

   TARGETING PARENTAL SMOKING
 

   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 

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