Screen Time Use Among Urban Children With Asthma
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Reducing screen time for children.
C hildren in the United States watch an average of 4 hours of television per day. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children younger than 2 years of age avoid all types of television viewing and that children 2 years of age or older should not be exposed to more than 2 hours per day of entertainment media or “screen time” (ie, time sitting in front of a television or computer s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Pediatrics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1876-2859
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2008.10.001