TY  - JOUR
T1  - EVolving notions of childhood chronic illness
AU  - Halfon N, Newacheck PW
Y1  - 2010/02/17
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.130
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 665
EP  - 666
VL  - 303
IS  - 7
N2  - 
The more than doubling in prevalence of chronic conditions reported by the authors is consistent with an increasing body of evidence documenting a historic shift in the epidemiology of child health—from acute to chronic illnesses—that began at least 50 years ago.2- 4 Indeed, while mortality rates, hospitalizations for common acute conditions and injuries, and school absence days due to illness were declining, the prevalence of chronic conditions severe enough to cause some level of activity limitation more than doubled between the 1960s and the 1980s.5 Results from the report by Van Cleave et al suggest the upward trend in prevalence of chronic conditions has continued through the 1990s and into the first decade of this century.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.130
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.130
ER  -