A previous analysis of 454 patients younger than 21 years at Children’s Hospital Colorado found asthma to be a risk factor for hospitalization and respiratory support but not critical care.7 Current evidence suggesting asthma as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 illness among adults is mixed....
Two seminal events provide a frame for public health approaches to adolescent disease and illness: the formation of the United States Public Health Service and the establishment of the World Health Organization. Within this framework, this chapter addres
the leading causes of death tended to be infectious diseases; however, by mid-century they had become chronic diseases. For example, in 1968, the likelihood of dying from an infectious disease was one-sixth what it was in 1900, but the death rate from heart disease had increased by ...
"For those refuge states — so far, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Washington and Vermont, plus Washington, D.C. — the question is how to move beyond promises of legal protection and build a network to serve...