Neighborhood Material Deprivation Is Associated with Childhood Asthma Development: Analysis of Prospective Administrative Data.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Material deprivation has been proposed as a more comprehensive measure of socioeconomic status than parental income. Stronger associations between childhood emergency department visits for asthma and air pollution have been demonstrated among children living in neighborhoods with high levels of deprivation, but the associations with asthma development and ongoing asthma are not known.

Objectives

We determined the associations between neighborhood material deprivation and the development of new and ongoing childhood asthma.

Methods

Prospectively collected administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences were examined for Toronto children born from 1997 to 2003. Neighborhood material deprivation, comprising no high school graduation

SUBMITTER: Simons E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545816 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature