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Natalie C. G. Freeman, PhD, MPH, Dona Schneider, PhD, MPH and Patricia McGarvey, MA, RN

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.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Natalie C.G. Freeman, PhD, MPH, 11 Cleveland Cir, Skillman, NJ 08558 (e-mail: nfreeman@eohsi.rutgers.edu).

	INTRODUCTION

 
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.

	METHODS

 
The initiative included an in-class asthma education module, followed by a 3-pronged screening program: child self-report questionnaires, matched parental questionnaires, and matched spirometry readings with physician interpretations. Children at high risk for asthma were referred for medical evaluation. Nearly complete questionnaire data were obtained from 976 children (93% of the target population) in class. Questionnaires were returned . . . [Full Text]

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	DISCUSSION

 

	Acknowledgments

 

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