The Legacy of Redlining: Increasing Childhood Asthma Disparities through Neighborhood Poverty.

ABSTRACT: Rationale: Identifying the root causes of racial disparities in childhood asthma is critical for health equity. Objectives: To determine whether the racist policy of redlining in the 1930s led to present-day disparities in childhood asthma by increasing community-level poverty and decreasing neighborhood socioeconomic position (SEP). Methods: We categorized census tracts at the birth address of participants from the Children's Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup birth cohort consortium into categories A, B, C, and D as defined by the Home Owners Loan Corporation, with D being the highest perceived risk. Surrogates of present-day neighborhood-level SEP were determined for each tract, including the percentage of low-income households, the CDC's Social Vulnerability I

SUBMITTER: Ryan PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11568444 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature