The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky finds that: (1) Asthma is the seventh -most prevalent chronic health condition in the United States and is the leading serious chronic illness of children; (2) Asthma is the third -ranking cause of hospita lization among children under age fifteen (15) and accounts for almost one (1) in six (6) of all pediatric emergency room visits; (3) Approximately two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) Kentuckians suffer from asthma, including over sixty thousand (60,000) children; (4) Nationally more than five thousand four hundred (5,400) individuals die from asthma each year; (5) Asthma is the number -one cause of school absences attributed to chronic conditions; (6) Asthma is manageable with treatment and medications; (7) Physicians and other health care practitioners instruct children with asthma in the proper use of asthma medications; and (8) KRS 158.830 to 158.836 shall be construed to provide unobstructed access to asthma medications for elementary and secondary school students with asthma.
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