Quick Fact #10
According to the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health, 11% of West Virginia’s children under the age of 18, or approximately 43,000 individuals, have asthma.
The mission of the West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program is to develop, implement, and evaluate a statewide strategic asthma plan in the interest of reducing the health and economic consequences attributed to asthma in West Virginia.
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