School-Based Screening for Asthma in Third-Grade Urban Children

The Passaic Asthma Reduction Effort Survey

Bibliographic Data

ID11031602
AuthorsNatalie C G Freeman (Natalie C. G. Freeman is with the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ. Dona Schneider is with the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Natalie C. G. Freeman and Dona Schneider are members of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ. Patricia McGarvey is with Health First, Passaic Beth Israel Hospital, Passaic, NJ.), Natalie Freeman (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute), Dona Schneider (0000-0002-1589-011X, Natalie C. G. Freeman is with the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ. Dona Schneider is with the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Natalie C. G. Freeman and Dona Schneider are members of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ. Patricia McGarvey is with Health First, Passaic Beth Israel Hospital, Passaic, NJ.), Patricia McGarvey (Natalie C. G. Freeman is with the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ. Dona Schneider is with the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Natalie C. G. Freeman and Dona Schneider are members of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ. Patricia McGarvey is with Health First, Passaic Beth Israel Hospital, Passaic, NJ.)
Year2002
Volume92
Issue1
Pages45-46
Publication date2002-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.92.1.45
PMID11772757
OpenAlexW2061933733
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

A communitywide asthma reduction health initiative targeted all third graders (n = 1052) in the public and private schools of Passaic, NJ, for the 1998–1999 school year. The objective of the initiative was to screen all third-grade children for asthma or respiratory dysfunction

Asthma · Environmental health · Family medicine · Asthma and respiratory diseases · Immunology · Medicine · Respiratory and Cough-Related Research · School Health and Nursing Education

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