Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- pt. 1. Social Impact of Asthma. 1. Introduction to Part One: The Social Impact of Asthma / Kevin B. Weiss and A. Sonia Buist. 2. Quality of Life, Health Status, and the Social Impact of Asthma: An Overview / Paul W. Jones. 3. Characterizing the Social Impact of Asthma in Children / Neal Halfon and Paul W. Newacheck. 4. Characterizing the Occupational Impact of Asthma / Paul D. Blanc. 5. Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life for Persons with Asthma: An Overview / Elizabeth F. Juniper. 6. Current Methods in Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Asthma / Lynn M. Olson and Linda Asmussen. 7. Current Methods for Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Asthma / Guy B. Marks. 8. Psychosocial Factors in Chronic Asthma / Cynthia S. Rand and Arlene Manns Butz. 9. The Impact of Sociodemographic Factors on Asthma / Lauren A. Smith and Jonathan A. Finkelstein -- pt. 2. Economic Impact of Asthma.
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"One of the first comprehensive studies of the social and economic consequences of this chronic pulmonary illness, Asthma's Impact on Society assesses how communities, families, and individuals confront asthma and try to minimize its deleterious effects."--Jacket.