A novel tool using social and environmental determinants of health to assess pediatric asthma in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT: Asthma, the most common chronic disease in children, affects more than 4 million children in the United States, disproportionately affecting those who are economically disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minorities. Studies have shown that the racial and ethnic disparities in asthma outcomes can be largely explained by environmental, socioeconomic and other social determinants of health (SDoH). Utilizing new approaches to stratify disease severity and risk, which focus on the underlying SDoH that lead to asthma disparity, provides an opportunity to disentangle race and ethnicity from its confounding social determinants. In particular, with the growing use of geospatial information systems, geocoded data can enable researchers and clinicians to quantify social and environmental impacts of s

SUBMITTER: Liberman DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11322657 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature