ArticleBMC public health2007
Ecological study of socio-economic indicators and prevalence of asthma in schoolchildren in urban Brazil.
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- Asthma in Hispanics. An 8-year update.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2014Review
- Social determinants of childhood asthma symptoms: an ecological study in urban Latin America.Journal of community health · 2014Article
- Association between environmental factors and current asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema symptoms in school-aged children from Oropeza Province--Bolivia: a cross-sectional study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2013Article
- Effects of geohelminth infection and age on the associations between allergen-specific IgE, skin test reactivity and wheeze: a case-control study.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2013Article
- Influence of poverty and infection on asthma in Latin America.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2012Review
- Pattern of asthma medication use among children from a large urban center in Brazil.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2012Article
- Urbanisation is associated with prevalence of childhood asthma in diverse, small rural communities in Ecuador.Thorax · 2011Article
- Innate immune mechanism in allergic asthma.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2008Review
- Transdisciplinary research strategies for understanding socially patterned disease: the Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment, and Social Stress (ACCESS) project as a case study.Ciencia & saude coletivaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThere is evidence of higher prevalence of asthma in populations of lower socio-economic status in affluent societies, and the prevalence of asthma is also very high in some Latin American countries, where societies are characterized by a marked inequality in wealth. This study aimed to examine the relationship between estimates of asthma prevalence based on surveys conducted in children in Brazilian cities and health and socioeconomic indicators measured at the population level in the same cities.
methodsWe searched the literature in the medical databases and in the annals of scientific meeting, retrieving population-based surveys of asthma that were conducted in Brazil using the methodology defined by the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood. We performed separate analyses for the age groups 6-7 years and 13-14 years. We examined the association between asthma prevalence rates and eleven health and socio-economic indicators by visual inspection and using linear regression models weighed by the inverse of the variance of each survey.
resultsSix health and socioeconomic variables showed a clear pattern of association with asthma. The prevalence of asthma increased with poorer sanitation and with higher infant mortality at birth and at survey year, GINI index and external mortality. In contrast, asthma prevalence decreased with higher illiteracy rates.
conclusionThe prevalence of asthma in urban areas of Brazil, a middle income country, appears to be higher in cities with more marked poverty or inequality.
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