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Breathing Easy: Lung Health and Associated Conditions in the Day Care Setting
Carrick, Richard Corbett-Detig, James Coutinho, Anastasia Hum, Justine Krauthamer, Gunter Marsh, Sarah Davis, Gerald Ryan, Rebecca
Carrick, Richard
Corbett-Detig, James
Coutinho, Anastasia
Hum, Justine
Krauthamer, Gunter
Marsh, Sarah
Davis, Gerald
Ryan, Rebecca
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Introduction: Air pollutants are associated with many health risks. Children in the day care environment are uniquely suscept-ible to lung damage, infection, systemic illness & pollutant triggered hypersensitivity reactions. The latest public report by the CDC reports Vermont’s (VT) asthma rate is the high-est in the country at 11.1%. This project compared VT’s day care regulations regarding specific environmental factors linked with health risks to regulations in six surrounding New England states. We sought to assess whether VT’s regulations adequately protect children in day care
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2012-01-24