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Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education.

Hospitalizations and deaths attributed to asthma are increasing, and the disease has disproportionate impacts on children and minority populations, particularly African-Americans. Because asthma hospitalizations and deaths are viewed by many experts as preventable events, and because asthma's t...

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Autor principal: O'Neill, M S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 1996
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1469346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8743428
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description Hospitalizations and deaths attributed to asthma are increasing, and the disease has disproportionate impacts on children and minority populations, particularly African-Americans. Because asthma hospitalizations and deaths are viewed by many experts as preventable events, and because asthma's toll is so significant in economic terms, increased efforts to reverse these trends, particularly among the most affected groups, are warranted. Reducing exposures to airborne pollutants known to trigger asthma in both indoor and outdoor environments is one important preventive strategy. The public-private partnership effort to implement the Open Airways for Schools asthma management curriculum in urban elementary schools, with its emphasis on pollution prevention, is an example of a community-based effort that may help decrease the toll asthma takes on society.
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spelling pubmed-14693462006-06-01 Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education. O'Neill, M S Environ Health Perspect Research Article Hospitalizations and deaths attributed to asthma are increasing, and the disease has disproportionate impacts on children and minority populations, particularly African-Americans. Because asthma hospitalizations and deaths are viewed by many experts as preventable events, and because asthma's toll is so significant in economic terms, increased efforts to reverse these trends, particularly among the most affected groups, are warranted. Reducing exposures to airborne pollutants known to trigger asthma in both indoor and outdoor environments is one important preventive strategy. The public-private partnership effort to implement the Open Airways for Schools asthma management curriculum in urban elementary schools, with its emphasis on pollution prevention, is an example of a community-based effort that may help decrease the toll asthma takes on society. 1996-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1469346/ /pubmed/8743428 Text en
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Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education.
title Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education.
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title_fullStr Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education.
title_full_unstemmed Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education.
title_short Helping schoolchildren with asthma breathe easier: partnerships in community-based environmental health education.
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