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Volume 18: Issue 2 Winter 2004
Asthma: A Serious and Growing Health Problem
More than 30 million people in the United States have asthma. Every year, asthma is responsible for about 500,000 hospitalizations, 4,500 deaths, and 134 million days of restricted activity. The increase in the numbers of people with asthma is of great concern; the number of people with asthma increased by 102 percent between 1979–1980 and 1993–1994.
Federal Agencies Attack Asthma
Even One Attack Is One Too Many. That's the message being driven
home to parents by the Childhood Asthma Campaign sponsored
by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Advertising Council
(www.epa.gov/asthma/adcampaign.html).
EPA officials have called childhood asthma an epidemic and are promoting
an aggressive campaign to prevent attacks.
Prevention Report is a service of
the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
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