Your browser doesn't support javascript.
The relationship between fever rate and telework implementation as a social distancing measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
Kawashima, T; Nomura, S; Tanoue, Y; Yoneoka, D; Eguchi, A; Shi, S; Miyata, H.
  • Kawashima T; Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Nomura S; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Tanoue Y; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Institute for Business and Finance, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Yoneoka D; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Eguchi A; Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
  • Shi S; Department of Systems Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Laboratory for Synthetic Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Osaka, Japan.
  • Miyata H; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: h-m@keio.jp.
Public Health ; 192: 12-14, 2021 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-343588
ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVES:

On March 28, the Japanese government decided on the "Basic Policies for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control" and called on the public to thoroughly implement social distancing measures (i.e., behavioral restrictions to limit the frequency and intensity of human contact), especially telework.

METHODS:

We used population-level questionnaire data from a social networking service (SNS), with 275,560 respondents from March 5 to April 6, to evaluate the relationship between telework implementation and the presence of a fever (body temperature higher than 37.5 °C) within 1 month as a surrogate indicator of COVID-19 infection, by occupation type and age-group.

RESULTS:

Among company employees, statistical significance was identified in the 15- to 29-year and 30- to 59-year age-groups, showing higher fever rates in the non-teleworker group (for the 15- to 29-year age-group, non-teleworkers 7.64%; teleworkers 6.45%; P = 0.02; for the 30- to 59-year age-group, non-teleworkers 3.46%; teleworkers 3.14%; P = 0.02).

CONCLUSIONS:

Telework remains a controversial topic in Japan as the government called for emergency measures. Although caution is warranted in interpreting our findings because our data are limited to the voluntary SNS users, they will be essential to push forward with more measures to promote social distancing measures in the midst of Japan's current tense political climate.
Subject(s)
Keywords

Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Fever / Teleworking / Physical Distancing / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Qualitative research / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Middle aged / Young adult Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: English Journal: Public Health Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: J.puhe.2020.05.018

Similar

MEDLINE

...
LILACS

LIS


Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Fever / Teleworking / Physical Distancing / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Qualitative research / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Middle aged / Young adult Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: English Journal: Public Health Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: J.puhe.2020.05.018