2011 Volume 53 Issue 4 Pages 312-319
【Object】Since pandemic A/H1N1 2009 emerged in May 2009, as the Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare reinforced the surveillance at school and especially first outbreak in Japan had occurred at high school, we developed the web-based system for reporting and summarize, and practically applied it at some prefectures.
【Result】All schools in 10 prefectures used this system. In total, 9000 schools joined the system, which accounted for about 20% of all elementary, junior, and senior high schools in Japan. Moreover, 682 organizations such as educational board, public health center, local government or medical associations, also joined the system so as to reduce their burden. Data input at school required only about 7-8 minutes. Willingness to pay at all current participated school amounted 12.29 million yen, and 61.43 million yen at the all school in Japan. Benefit-cost ratio was estimated as 1.76 in 2009, as 4.55 in 2010 for current participated schools, as 4.84 for all schools in Japan.
【Discussion】We saved cost for 65.7 million yen in the ten prefectures. Moreover we can prove its cost-effectiveness.
