Role of financial and social hardships in asthma racial disparities

Pediatrics

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 431-439

  Beck, Andrew F ^a   Huang, Bin ^a   Simmons, Jeffrey M ^a   Moncrief, Terri ^a   Sauers, Hadley S ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Ryan, Patrick H ^a   Newman, Nicholas C ^a   Kahn, Robert S ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood asthma; Pediatrics; Racial disparities; Readmissions

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; WHEEZING;

CHILDHOOD ASTHMA; PEDIATRICS; RACIAL DISPARITIES; READMISSIONS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84895153664     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-2437     Document Type: Article

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