Titre : | Rethinking race/ethnicity, income, and childhood asthma : Racial/ethnic disparities concentrated among the very poor. (2005) |
Auteurs : | Lauren-A Smith ; HATCHER-ROSS (Juliet-L) : USA. Department of Educational Psychology. Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology Program. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis. MN. ; KAHN (Robert-S) : USA. Division of General and Community Pediatrics. Children's Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati. OH. ; WERTHEIMER (Richard) : USA. Child Trends. Inc. Washington. DC. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Public health reports (vol. 120, n° 2, 2005) |
Pagination : | 109-116 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Asthme ; Race ; Ethnie ; Enfant ; Homme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Appareil respiratoire [pathologie] ; Bronchopneumopathie obstructive ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS zR0xugZ1. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objective. Past studies of the prevalence of childhood asthma have yielded conflicting findings as to whether racial/ethnic disparities remain after other factors, such as income, are taken into account. The objective of this study was to examine the association of race/ethnicity and family income with the prevalence of childhood asthma and to assess whether racial/ethnic disparities vary by income strata. Methods. Cross-sectional data on 14,244 children aged |