Health care politics, environment take the air out of asthma sufferers

August 4, 2017 Leave a comment

The Arizona Department of Health Services estimates that the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid program, pays for more than half of the estimated $115 million spent every year on asthma-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

Children in lower-income areas more susceptible to asthma

May 16, 2016 Leave a comment

Children in the state’s lower-income urban communities suffer more serious bouts of asthma caused by dirty air and other pollutants – despite decades of state and local monitoring and repeated concerns that air in their neighborhoods is dangerous to their health.

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Health care politics, environment take the air out of asthma sufferers

Children in lower-income areas more susceptible to asthma