FluWorkLoss 1.0
With case study (blood donor supply)
One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Pandemic influenza can overwhelm a community, causing very serious public health, social, and economic problems. Approximately 36,000 deaths and 220,000 hospitalizations per year are related to seasonal influenza in the U.S. However, because illness rates during a pandemic are likely to be 2-5 times higher than a typical influenza season, special planning for work loss during pandemics is critical to maintain continuity of operations in a severe pandemic.
FluWorkLoss estimates the potential number of days lost from work due to an influenza pandemic. Users can change almost any input value, such as the number of workdays assumed lost when a worker becomes ill or the number of workdays lost due to a worker staying home to care for a family member. Users can also change the length and virulence of the pandemic so that a range of possible impacts can be estimated. FluWorkLoss provides a range of estimates of total workdays lost, as well as graphic illustrations of the workdays lost by week and percentage of total workdays lost to influenza-related illnesses. An example of the results produced by FluWorkLoss is given below.
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Example of output from FluWorkLoss
Case Study
The manual contains a case study illustrating how to use FluWorkLoss to estimate the potential impact of the next influenza pandemic on the availability of human blood donors. This case study exemplifies how users can adapt FluWorkLoss to estimate the potential impact of pandemic influenza for a wide variety of situations.System Requirements:
- Windows* operating system (MS Windows 2000 or newer)
- Microsoft Excel (MS Office 2000 or newer)
- 486 Pentium processor and at least 128MB RAM
- 2 MB of hard drive storage space
* MS Windows and Office is a copyrighted product produced by Microsoft Corporation, WA. Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Instructions for Downloading:
Before loading and starting FluWorkLoss, you must change Excel's security level as decribed below:
- Open a blank Excel spreadsheet.
- Click Tools and then click Macro, choose Security
- Set Security Level to Medium.
- Click OK. You are now ready to open FluWorkLoss (once you have downloaded the program – see below).
- Double click to open FluWorkLoss file.
- When asked to Disable Macros or Enable Macros, click Enable Macros.
A more detailed description of changing the security levels can be found in the FluWorkLoss manual (available for downloading, below)
Downloading the Files:
*We recommend downloading and saving the FluWorkLoss Spreadsheet to your computer, then open the spreadsheet from your computer. This will allow the spreadsheet to open in Excell instead of your web browser.
- * FluWorkLoss Spreadsheet
- FluWorkLoss
Manual
(1.05 MB/35 pages)
Page last updated December 28, 2006