Washington, DC (openPR) 3 March 2009

“Let’s be clear: we know the most effective methods for managing asthma in children,” said Dr. Floyd Malveaux, President of Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN) and former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Howard University. “Our challenge is to communicate and implement these methods in all countries for each child where he or she could live.”

“Too many parents their children – suffer from asthma are unnecessary because of mismanagement or non-existent in the state – especially those families living in the African-American, Hispanic and poor neighborhoods,” said Dr. Malveaux.

“The state of asthma in children,” a supplement to the March issue of Pediatrics (Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics) has terms from an interdisciplinary experts in the field of child health, asthma and public policy to his important discoveries.


p ‘In 2007, a historically high number of children – had asthma – nearly one in ten children in the United States. Although consensus guidelines on promoting scientifically sound and appropriate to have established since 1991, asthma rates in children have not improved consistently.

-Racial/ethnic differences are found in asthma prevalence, with minorities and medically underserved children both take a disproportionate burden of disease and in the case of African American children, a continuous increase in mortality from asthma. For example:
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minority children admitted for asthma less likely than white children made to have anti-inflammatory drugs and are prescribed a nebulizer for home use to quit.

life in the communities near a major road or highway increases the incidence of new cases of asthma, the level of asthma symptoms, frequency of emergency room visits and hospital stays.

When the level of air pollution have been reduced to meet the state cleaner communities, annual school absences for asthma fell by two thirds, and new cases of asthma decreased by 75 percent.
Dr. Malveaux and MCAN brought these opinion leaders, and to investigate not only the barriers to improving asthma management, but also to the programs of the evidence and the policies that have proven to work highlight. Article stresses that the management methods were most successful ones, explores the many factors that lead to and tend to aggravate asthma in children. Home repairs and school clinics, for example, have to be particularly effective in limiting hospital visits, reducing symptoms and improving quality of life of children with asthma.

“Asthma remains a major burden on children and their families a challenge for policy makers, public health agencies and providers of health and a puzzle for researchers to be its causes,” said complement Sara Rosenbaum, author and president of the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Care. “Although asthma can not be cured, it can do when children and their families will have access to high quality services and health care utilization.”

To the full allowance, you can visit the Journal of Pediatrics.


About MCAN

Merck Childhood Asthma Network

(MCAN) is a legally independent, nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) organization established to the complex and growing problem of pediatric asthma address. MCAN is funded by the Merck Company Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck & Co., Inc. of Floyd Malveaux, MD, PhD, a nationally recognized expert in asthma and allergic diseases and former dean of Howard University College of Medicine led, is MCAN specifically focused on improving access to treatment of asthma and quality management for children in the United States. For more information, please visit www.mcanonline.org.


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