Resumen

KASSISE, Elías et al. Educación y asma en la escuela: La carga del asma. Ausentismo y rendimiento escolar. Arch Venez Puer Ped [online]. 2010, vol.73, n.2, pp.55-58. ISSN 0004-0649.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease during childhood. Despite the growing number of methods and techniques employed for diagnosis and medical treatments, asthma keeps growing in number of person who suffer it. Failure to control asthma will depend on the knowledge that the patient has about the disease and the treatment that is given by the medical team. Even in countries with excellent health systems and free supply of, the longed total control has been difficult to reach and the numbers of persons who deal well the disease are disappointing. It is urgent to summon multidisciplinary work teams in health, education, sport and social development in public and private sectors. These efforts should be aimed at the production of effective public policies tending to face the great load that asthma represents for the local and national economy, as well as to alleviate the important deterioration in the quality of life of those who suffer it. The programs of follow-up and sanitary education of the asthmatic patient and his keepers must constitute a priority for the State, who is entrusted to watch, free of cost, over the biopsicosocial well-being of each of his members.

Palabras clave : Asma; educación; escuela.