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Article: Managing asthma in the classroom.
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- Childhood Education
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting nearly 5 million children under the age of 18. Children with asthma account for 3 million hospital visits and 200,000 hospitalizations yearly. This adds up to an estimated $2 billion annually in health care costs (American Academy of Pediatrics, 1999). A child with asthma has three times the number of school absences as compared to the average non-asthmatic child. And the number of children affected has been growing. Since 1980, there has been a 160 percent increase in the disease in children under age 4 (Poirot, 1999). In an average classroom, one or two children are likely to have asthma (Majer & Joy, ...
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