Neighborhood-level risk and resilience factors: An emerging issue in childhood asthma epidemiology

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 633-637

  Pearlman, Deborah N ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood asthma; Community level contextual factors; Disparities; Risk and protective factors

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MINORITY GROUP; NOTE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PROTECTION; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 77949863072     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eci.09.71     Document Type: Note

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