Background Although not widely recognized as such, asthma is the single most prevalent
cause of childhood disability and has contributed to a substantial rise in the overall …

Asthma imposes a growing burden on society in terms of morbidity, quality of life, and
healthcare costs. Although federally sponsored national surveys provide estimates of …

OBJECTIVES. To estimate differences in asthma prevalence among Hispanic subgroups
and non-Hispanic children living in the United States and to explore the association …

BACKGROUND. Recent reports have identified New York City as having asthma mortality
rates that are substantially higher than expected based on US rates. This study investigates …

Asthma morbidity has increased dramatically in the past decade, especially among poor and
minority children in the inner cities. The National Cooperative Inner‐City Asthma Study …

Considerable variation in the prevalence of childhood asthma and allergic conditions has
been shown in previous studies. These differences may in part be attributable to …

Objectives. The authors examine whether the odds of having a hospitalization associated
with an ambulatory care sensitive condition can be explained by observed differences in a …

Health varies with socioeconomic status; those with higher incomes or who are better
educated can expect to have better health. The success of the Canadian universal health …

• Unlike a number of childhood problems, it is not clear that there are racial or
socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of childhood asthma. We analyzed data from …

Studies have suggested increases in hospitalization for asthma and in asthma mortality
during the early 1980s. Using US Vital Records, we examined asthma mortality from 1968 …