Social environment and asthma: associations with crime and No Child Left Behind programmes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between asthma and socio-economic status remains unclear. The authors investigated how neighbourhood, school and community social environments were associated with incident asthma in Southern California schoolchildren.

Methods

New-onset asthma was measured over 3 years of follow-up in the Children's Health Study cohort. Multilevel random-effects models assessed associations between social environments and asthma, adjusted for individual risk factors. At baseline, subjects resided in 274 census tracts (ie, neighbourhoods) and attended kindergarten or first grade in one of 45 schools distributed in 13 communities throughout Southern California. Neighbourhoods and communities were characterised by measures of deprivation, income inequality and racial

SUBMITTER: Shankardass K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4384703 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature