Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0912 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Asthma
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The idea
Asthma, chronic inflammation of the airways, affects about eight percent of US children; family history, allergies, urban air pollution and obesity raise the risk.
In practice
A child missing school days when asthma is poorly controlled, a leading cause of absence.
Where people slip
Chronic illness in childhood is linked to behavioural and socioemotional concerns as well as to missed learning.
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