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Your Income & Race Can Tell You If You're at Risk For Asthma
DC Inno A new study out of Johns Hopkins University debunks the myth that living in a big city will increase a child's risk of asthma. Instead, the study published Tuesday in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology says that income, race and ethnicity … |
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Low income, higher cost-sharing posed barriers to children's asthma care
Healio Low-income families who had higher cost-sharing health plans were more likely to delay or avoid care for children with asthma, when compared with families who had lower levels of cost sharing, according to recent study results. Researchers conducted a … Higher health insurance cost-sharing impacts asthma care for low-income kids |
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Low Income, High Asthma, Poor Health
dailyRx The study, led by Timothy Mainardi, MD, MA, past fellow at Columbia University Medical Center and currently in practice at Hudson Allergy, looked at 195 children with asthma who come from middle class families in neighborhoods across New York City over … |
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Uncontrolled asthma can affect children's schooling, family income
ModernMedicine Failure to appropriately control severe asthma in children not only has a critical effect on their health but also impacts their educational achievement. It also doubles the health care costs related to their disease, according to results of a new … |
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