Identification and education of adolescents with asthma in an urban school district: results from a large-scale asthma intervention.

ABSTRACT: Asthma is a leading cause of hospitalizations, acute care utilization, health care costs, and school absences in children. Asthma morbidity is disproportionately high in inner city populations. In general, community-based public health interventions to reduce asthma morbidity have had modest success due in part to their limited reach and low participation by the targeted population. Adolescents have been especially difficult to reach. A coalition of community organizations developed a school-based, population-level system to identify, prioritize, and provide interventions for middle school children with asthma in a large urban school district in Oakland, CA. Nearly 92% (n = 8,326) of students in the targeted schools took an asthma case identification survey. Of those students who took the

SUBMITTER: Davis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2329749 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature