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Study shows race, ethnicity and poverty impact childhood asthma more than …
West Hawaii Today For more than 50 years, researchers have described childhood asthma as a plague of the inner city — urban areas where 20 percent or more of the population lives below the poverty line. But a new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University … |
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Capital OTC |
City Life Is Not an Asthma Risk Factor, Race and Poverty Are
Capital OTC City Life Is Not an Asthma Risk Factor, Race and Poverty Are A recent research paper shows that asthma doesn't necessarily thrive in poor and densely populated areas of inner cities. The findings revealed that people living in urban neighborhoods don't … |
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Study: Poverty And Ethnicity Linked To Asthma In Children
Design & Trend The data revealed that 13 percent of inner-city children had asthma compared to 11 percent the other children living outside of inner cities. However, when other variables were considered such as ethnicity, geography and poverty, the environment became … |
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Survey shows high poverty, asthma rates in neighborhood
Meriden Record-Journal Meriden Choice respondents were significantly more likely to be unemployed than Meriden as a whole, where 25.6 percent of residents reported not working and actively looking for work. Almost 50 percent of the Choice Survey respondents said their … |
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Getting treatment for asthma is difficult for children living in poverty
Michigan Radio “Children in poverty are at risk because they don't have the resources to rid their homes of things like mold and moisture, so it does take a lot of other referrals to help our families to decrease the asthma symptoms in the home,” said Jackson. That's … |
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Studies link poverty with increased risk for asthma
KOB.com "It's been demonstrated many times that environments where you have poor nutrition, where you have violence, where you're constantly exposed to environmental factors such as air pollution, then you're going to have increased incidence of asthma," notes … |
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Asthma & poverty
KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News "It's been demonstrated many times that environments where you have poor nutrition, where you have violence, where you're constantly exposed to environmental factors such as air pollution, then you're going to have increased incidence of asthma," notes … |
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Asthma & Poverty
KTAL "It's been demonstrated many times that environments where you have poor nutrition, where you have violence, where you're constantly exposed to environmental factors such as air pollution, then you're going to have increased incidence of asthma," notes … |
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Studies link poverty with increased risk for asthma
WCSH-TV It's one of the many things in the living environment that makes it hard for Joy and her daughter, Savana, to breathe. Both have severe asthma. The chronic disease inflames and narrows airways. The Dawsons live in one of the poorest sections of … |
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Dateline to Investigate Links Between Poverty and Childhood Asthma
News On News Dateline to Investigate Links Between Poverty and Childhood Asthma On Sunday, January 5 at 7pm ET, NBC's Dateline will air 'Breathless', a story of injustice that investigates the link between poverty and childhood asthma. More than seven million … |
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