Time trends in racial and ethnic disparities in asthma prevalence in the United States from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) study (1999-2011)

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1269-1275

  Bhan, Nandita ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Glymour, Maria M ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; ASTHMA; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929340444     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302172     Document Type: Article

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