Lung Time Coming
Posted On: September 25, 2007Originally published as part of the September, 2004 Issue Children go to the hospital for asthma more than twice as often in Cook County than anywhere else in the six-county metropolitan area. In general, the higher the African American population, the more kids are likely to be hospitalized.
Notes: Figures are the average annual number of child asthma hospitalizations from 1998 through 2002 for every 100,000 children under age 15.
Sources: Illinois Department of Public Health; U.S. Census Bureau; analyzed by The Chicago Reporter and Chicago Parent.
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