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Health Education Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, 119-121, February 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Prevalence of asthma in schoolchildren underrepresents those from socially deprived areas

Michel Erlewyn-Lajeunesse and Paul Edmondson-Jones

Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust, Finchdean House, Milton Road, Portsmouth PO3 6DP, UK. E-mail: M.D.S.Erlewyn-Lajeunesse@soton.ac.uk

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We were interested to read the excellent study by McCann et al. in the February edition of Health Education Research (McCann et al., 2002Go). We have recently conducted a similar, but smaller, study that sheds some light upon their results. Our study aimed to assess the impact of our local asthma health promotion scheme for schools [Asthma Friendly Schools (AFS) Initiative], which had been in place for 5 years and had been adopted by about half of all Portsmouth schools.

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