Perceived parent financial burden and asthma outcomes in low-income, urban children

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 329-342

  Patel, Minal R ^a   Brown, Randall W ^a   Clark, Noreen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Barriers to care; Childhood asthma; Low income; Outcomes; Urban children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARENTS; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84876282691     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-012-9774-7     Document Type: Article

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