Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches to assess wintertime illness-related absenteeism and its direct and indirect costs among the private sector in Ulaanbaatar

• Mandukhai Ganbat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mandukhai Ganbat, Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg, Chuluunbileg Batbold, Saruultuya Nergui, Clarence Wigfall, Narantsetseg Amarsanaa

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mandukhai@mnums.edu.mn

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9000-0463

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• Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mandukhai Ganbat, Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg, Chuluunbileg Batbold, Saruultuya Nergui, Clarence Wigfall, Narantsetseg Amarsanaa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Chuluunbileg Batbold ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mandukhai Ganbat, Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg, Chuluunbileg Batbold, Saruultuya Nergui, Clarence Wigfall, Narantsetseg Amarsanaa

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7900-974X

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• Saruultuya Nergui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mandukhai Ganbat, Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg, Chuluunbileg Batbold, Saruultuya Nergui, Clarence Wigfall, Narantsetseg Amarsanaa

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Ron Anderson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Clarence Wigfall ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mandukhai Ganbat, Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg, Chuluunbileg Batbold, Saruultuya Nergui, Clarence Wigfall, Narantsetseg Amarsanaa

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, United States of America

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• Narantsetseg Amarsanaa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mandukhai Ganbat, Nasantogtokh Erdenebileg, Chuluunbileg Batbold, Saruultuya Nergui, Clarence Wigfall, Narantsetseg Amarsanaa

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Accounting, Mandakh University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Alex Heikens ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AH, MS and DW senior authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation United Nations Children Fund, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Moiltmaa Sarantuya ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AH, MS and DW senior authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation United Nations Children Fund, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• David Warburton

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AH, MS and DW senior authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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