Association of a Housing Mobility Program With Childhood Asthma Symptoms and Exacerbations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Structural racism has been implicated in the disproportionally high asthma morbidity experienced by children living in disadvantaged, urban neighborhoods. Current approaches designed to reduce asthma triggers have modest impact.

Objective

To examine whether participation in a housing mobility program that provided housing vouchers and assistance moving to low-poverty neighborhoods was associated with reduced asthma morbidity among children and to explore potential mediating factors.

Design, setting, and participants

Cohort study of 123 children aged 5 to 17 years with persistent asthma whose families participated in the Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership housing mobility program from 2016 to 2020. Children were matched to 115 children enrolled in the Ur

SUBMITTER: Pollack CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10189571 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature