Tobacco Smoke-exposed Children Often Use Emergent Health Services: Study
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published March 26, 2021 | 07:30 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Mar, 2021 ) :Tobacco smoke-exposed children utilise emergency and urgent care services more often than unexposed children, which contributes to a large toll on the nation's health care system, according to a new study.
The findings of the study were recently published in the journal PLOS ONE. The research was led by the University of Cincinnati.
The study found that children who are exposed to tobacco smoke have higher pediatric emergency department visit costs compared to unexposed children. It also concluded that a higher number of tobacco smoke-exposed children had an urgent care visit over a one-year period compared to unexposed children, Medical Daily reported.
The research also discovered that tobacco smoke-exposed children had nearly twice the risk of being admitted to the hospital over a one-year period compared to unexposed children.
"Despite major progress in tobacco control, about 4-in-10 children remain exposed to tobacco smoke. This exposure places developing children at higher risk for many health problems, including respiratory illnesses such as asthma, bronchiolitis and pneumonia," said health services researcher and lead author Ashley Merianos, an associate professor of health promotion and education in UC's school of Human Services.
The study, Merianos said, also lends insight into preventions such as standardising and initiating tobacco smoke exposure reduction interventions in the urgent care, emergency and inpatient settings and promoting voluntary smoke-free home and car policies to help reduce children's tobacco smoke exposure and related consequences.
"If every health care provider were to use each pediatric visit as an opportunity to screen and advise parents who smoke or vape to counsel parents about the dangers of secondhand and thirdhand smoke exposure to their children, rates of pediatric tobacco smoke exposure would decline," said pediatric emergency physician and senior author Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, a professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's.
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