EPA: Black children 4 x's more likely to die from asthma than White children

[Guest guest]

" Black children have nearly two times the rates of current asthma as White

children "

" Black children are two times as likely to be hospitalized for asthma and

are four times as likely to die from asthma as White children. "

Environmental Health Disparities Fact Sheets

_http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/HD_AA_Asthma.htm/$File/HD_AA

_Asthma.pdf_

(http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/HD_AA_Asthma.htm/$File/HD_AA_A\

sthma.pdf)

The other three fact sheets on children asthma, second hand smoke:

_http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/publications2.htm#2_

(http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/publications2.htm#2)

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