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Halfon, Neal Newacheck, Paul W. |
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Evolving Notions of Childhood Chronic Illness: Editorial Journal of the American Medical Association 303,7 (February 17, 2010): 665-666. Also: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/303/7/665.extract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: JAMA: Journals of the American Medical Association Keyword(s): Asthma; Behavioral Problems; Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Illnesses; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. [[JAMA has] provided the first 150 words of the full text.] In this issue of JAMA, Van Cleave and colleagues 1 present an analysis of 3 cohorts of children spanning 1988 to 2006 included in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The authors report that the prevalence of several categories of chronic illness in childhood is increasing and that these conditions arise, continue, or resolve in a highly dynamic fashion. Both findings have important implications and raise a number of significant questions. The more than doubling in prevalence of chronic conditions reported by the authors is consistent with an increasing body of evidence documenting a historic shift in the epidemiology of child health—from acute to chronic illnesses—that began at least 50 years ago. Indeed, while mortality rates, hospitalizations for common acute conditions and injuries, and school absence days due to illness were declining, the prevalence of chronic conditions severe enough to cause some level … |
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Halfon, Neal and Paul W. Newacheck. "Evolving Notions of Childhood Chronic Illness: Editorial." Journal of the American Medical Association 303,7 (February 17, 2010): 665-666.
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