The News Review:
- Parent health sways views of asthmatic kids’ health
- Law on Flu Vaccinations May Be Tested
- Bright Ideas | Health So the Medicine Goes Down
- Hypocrisy reigns in fixing blame for health school ills
Parent health sways views of asthmatic kids’ health
Reuters
The study of more than 500 children with asthma found that those whose parents had a chronic health problem tended to miss more school days. Their parents were also less likely than other parents to rate their child’s health as “very good. n average children whose parents had a chronic disease missed one to two more days of school per year the researches report in the journal Pediatrics. The findings suggest that parents with chronic health conditions of their own may have “altered perceptions” of their children’s health explained lead researcher Dr. Lipstein of MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston.
Law on Flu Vaccinations May Be Tested
New York Times United States
Tolan said that vaccines are a matter of public health. “If you don’t vaccinate your child you’re putting my child at risk” he said.
Bright Ideas | Health So the Medicine Goes Down
New York Times United States
Mao had a friend whose company was working on a vaccine against rotavirus infections a leading cause of severe diarrhea in children. Most rotavirus vaccines are liquids must be handled carefully and kept refrigerated. The company wanted to produce a powdered inactivated virus and package it so it could be easily transported and given to a child. Mao asked Could Mr. Yu’s team help?The idea was to put the dried virus on strips like those used to deliver breath freshener. The strips would dissolve in an infant’s mouth and also stick to the roof of the mouth so the vaccine couldn’t be spit out.
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Hypocrisy reigns in fixing blame for health school ills
Greenville News SC
Poverty whether we are considering health or education proves to be a societal problem. In other words doctors and educators are faced with insurmountable problems when they are asked to overcome the ill effects of poverty. What then might we learn about educational discourse and reform from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report on health and poverty?First consider this claim in the report: “A child’s health is powerfully shaped by the environment in which he or she lives learns and plays. Both family and community matter and private and public policies at the local state and national level influence a child’s opportunity to be healthy. “Health is impacted negatively by poverty because many factors within a child’s economic status affect conditions (”opportunity”) that either lead to health or illness. Yet we discuss health and the medical profession in much different terms than student achievement and education — despite the evidence that poverty impacts health and student achievement in the same ways. A myriad of conditions in the life of children cause illness and low academic achievement.
