Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40994351›Full record

ArticleCommunity health equity research & policy2025

Inadequate Indoor Air Quality and Household Overcrowding Predispose to Life-Threatening Pulmonary Infections: Call for Action.

Malvika Kaul, Israel Rubinstein

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Community health equity research & policy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Malvika KaulDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Israel RubinsteinDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3628-0601

Funding

Pilot Program CoreP30ES027792 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Gokhan M. Mutlu, Gail S Prins · 2017 to 2026
$13.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES027792
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose that stakeholders should develop an economically sustainable, public health intervention to improve indoor air quality and to reduce overcrowding in households of underserved U.S. rural, urban and suburban residents exposed to life-threatening respiratory infections, such as caused by coronavirus disease 2019, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus. We posit that a multifaceted community-based intervention in these households would improve social inequities, promote health justice, and reduce health care expenditure. However, this call for action would require an interdisciplinary, coordinated, and sustainable action plan devised by federal, state, county, and city government departments and agencies in close collaboration with and input from local community leaders, members, and residents.

Indexed as

air pollutionhealth equitypovertyracesocial determinants of healthventilation

Identifiers

PMID40994351
PMCPMC13235953

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.