Nearly one in five Mexican American children residing in California's San Joaquin Valley
(the Valley) in 2007 had an asthma attack at some point in their life. Numerous …

California's San Joaquin Valley, one of the most highly productive—and contaminated—
agricultural regions in the world, is beset by some of the nation's worst air quality and high …

Children with asthma living on the northern Mexico border suffer not only from the physical
aspects of this condition, but also from the lack of a clear biomedical definition and treatment …

Abstract Objective Over 900,000 Mexican-origin children in the United States have asthma,
but little is known about the extent to which development of this condition reflects early …

The influx of immigrants to urban areas throughout the United States has raised concerns
about accessibility of safe, affordable housing and the health consequences of poor-quality …

Objectives. We describe the prevalence of asthma risk factors within racial/ethnic and
language groups of infants participating in an intervention study for reducing chronic …

Asthma prevalence is reportedly low for children of Mexican descent compared with other
ethnic groups and Latino subgroups. The results of our exploratory ethnographic research …

This study examined the relationship between race and Hispanic ethnicity, maternal and
child nativity, country of origin and asthma among 2,558 non-Hispanic white and Hispanic …

Background We evaluated the impact of migration to the USA-Mexico border city of El Paso,
Texas (USA), parental language preference, and Hispanic ethnicity on childhood asthma to …

A high prevalence and racial disparities in asthma and allergy have been observed in
American children. This study aimed to identify risk factors for asthma and allergy among …