TY - JOUR T1 - The vulnerable child JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 257 LP - 262 VL - 25 IS - 153 AU - J. R. T. Colley Y1 - 1975/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/25/153/257.abstract N2 - There is enough evidence from epidemiological studies of respiratory disease in children and young adults to justify testing various strategies for the identification of those children who are particularly vulnerable to respiratory disease. Such studies should be coupled with anti-smoking programmes carried out by those involved in the health education of schoolchildren and adults. The effects of this selective approach to the prevention or control of respiratory disease would require rigorous evaluation. ER -