ArticleThe Journal of pediatrics2016
Areas with High Rates of Police-Reported Violent Crime Have Higher Rates of Childhood Asthma Morbidity.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Recommendations for Clinicians to Combat Environmental Disparities in Pediatric Asthma: A Review.Chest · 2024Review
- The effects of violence and related stress on asthma.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024Review
- Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents.Youth & society · 2024Article
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- Association between property investments and crime on commercial and residential streets: Implications for maximizing public safety benefits.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Predicting pediatric severe asthma exacerbations: an administrative claims-based predictive model.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2024Article
- Maternal childhood trauma and prenatal stressors are associated with child behavioral health.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic determinants of respiratory health in patients with cystic fibrosis: implications for treatment strategies.Expert review of respiratory medicine · 2022Review
- Geospatial Analysis of Social Determinants of Health Identifies Neighborhood Hot Spots Associated With Pediatric Intensive Care Use for Life-Threatening Asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Article
- Social Vulnerability Is Associated with Poorer Outcomes in Preschool Children With Recurrent Wheezing Despite Standardized and Supervised Medical Care.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Article
- Using Electronic Health Records to understand the population of local children captured in a large health system in Durham County, NC, USA, and implications for population health research.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Caregiver-perceived neighborhood safety and pediatric asthma severity: 2017-2018 National Survey of Children's Health.Pediatric pulmonology · 2022Article
- Situating household management of children's asthma in the context of social, economic, and environmental injustice.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2022Article
- The Influence of Social Determinants of Health on Emergency Departments Visits in a Medicaid Sample.Annals of emergency medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess whether population-level violent (and all) crime rates were associated with population-level child asthma utilization rates and predictive of patient-level risk of asthma reutilization after a hospitalization. STUDY
designA retrospective cohort study of 4638 pediatric asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations between 2011 and 2013 was completed. For population-level analyses, census tract asthma utilization rates were calculated by dividing the number of utilization events within a tract by the child population. For patient-level analyses, hospitalized patients (n = 981) were followed until time of first asthma-related reutilization. The primary predictor was the census tract rate of violent crime as recorded by the police; the all crime (violent plus nonviolent) rate was also assessed.
resultsCensus tract-level violent and all crime rates were significantly correlated with asthma utilization rates (both P < .0001). The violent crime rate explained 35% of the population-level asthma utilization variance and remained associated with increased utilization after adjustment for census tract poverty, unemployment, substandard housing, and traffic exposure (P = .002). The all crime rate explained 28% of the variance and was similarly associated with increased utilization after adjustment (P = .02). Hospitalized children trended toward being more likely to reutilize if they lived in higher violent (P = .1) and all crime areas (P = .01). After adjustment, neither relationship was significant.
conclusionsCrime data could help facilitate early identification of potentially toxic stressors relevant to the control of asthma for populations and patients.
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