title: Chronic illness and its impact on academic achievement.
abstract: With chronic illness in children becoming increasingly evident, there is a need to tease out primary from secondary effects of the illness on scholastic achievement. Early multidisciplinary diagnosis of chronic illness is critical and requires a community setting with careful long-term individual follow-up and research. This will enable pediatricians and school doctors to be more helpful to the education authorities.
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000523:psychology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000523:psychology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000523:psychology