Asthma and poverty

The Role of Cockroach Allergy and Exposure to Cockroach Allergen in Causing Morbidity among Inner-City Children with Asthma

1997 • 1,364 citations

Skin test reactivity and number of siblings

1994 • 502 citations

Childhood Asthma and Poverty: Differential Impacts and Utilization of Health Services

1993 • 456 citations

Variations in asthma hospitalizations and deaths in New York City.

1992 • 451 citations

Predictors of Asthma and Persistent Wheeze in a National Sample of Children in the United States: Association with Social Class, Perinatal Events, and Race

1990 • 409 citations

Adherence with Twice-daily Dosing of Inhaled Steroids

1998 • 389 citations

Poverty, race, and hospitalization for childhood asthma.

1988 • 377 citations

An estimate of the prevalence of asthma and wheezing among inner-city children.

1994 • 338 citations

Relationship of indoor allergen exposure to skin test sensitivity in inner-city children with asthma

1998 • 336 citations

Poverty, Race, and Medication Use Are Correlates of Asthma Hospitalization Rates

1995 • 305 citations

Racial, Social, and Environmental Risks for Childhood Asthma

1990 • 302 citations

Socioeconomic status and race as risk factors for cockroach allergen exposure and sensitization in children with asthma

1996 • 301 citations

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN MORTALITY FROM CONDITIONS AMENABLE TO MEDICAL INTERVENTION IN ENGLAND AND WALES

1983 • 294 citations

Patterns of Asthma Mortality in Philadelphia from 1969 to 1991

1994 • 291 citations

Childhood eczema: disease of the advantaged?

1994 • 260 citations

Inner-City Asthma

1992 • 244 citations

Family structure, neonatal infection, and hay fever in adolescence.

1996 • 236 citations

Severity of Childhood Asthma by Socioeconomic Status

1996 • 233 citations

Results of the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study (NCICAS) environmental intervention to reduce cockroach allergen exposure in inner-city homes

1999 • 220 citations

Psychological Factors Associated with Medication Nonadherence in Asthmatic Children

1998 • 216 citations

Socioeconomic status and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1999 • 209 citations

Deprivation and cause specific morbidity: evidence from the Somerset and Avon survey of health

1996 • 208 citations

Inadequate outpatient medical therapy for patients with asthma admitted to two urban hospitals

1996 • 197 citations

Reported asthma among Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, and Cuban children, 1982 through 1984.

1993 • 197 citations

Comparison of the prevalence of reversible airways obstruction in rural and urban Zimbabwean children.

1991 • 195 citations

Psychosocial characteristics of inner-city children with asthma: A description of the NCICAS psychosocial protocol

1997 • 178 citations

Respiratory symptoms and home environment in children: a national survey

1999 • 166 citations

Occurrence, Predictors, and Consequences of Adult Asthma in NHANESI and Follow-up Survey

1989 • 164 citations

Medications Used by Children With Asthma Living in the Inner City

1998 • 160 citations

Reported Difficulties in Access to Quality Care for Children With Asthma in the Inner City

1998 • 148 citations

How Does Home Management of Asthma Exacerbations by Parents of Inner-city Children Differ From NHLBI Guideline Recommendations?

1999 • 140 citations

Impact of Parental Smoking on the Prevalence of Wheezing Respiratory Illness in Children

1995 • 137 citations

Race, Income, Urbanicity, and Asthma Hospitalization in California

1998 • 136 citations

Inner-city asthma. The epidemiology of an emerging US public health concern

1992 • 135 citations

Socioeconomic Status, Number of Siblings, and Respiratory Infections in Early Life as Determinants of Atopy in Children

1997 • 134 citations

Study of the aetiology of wheezing illness at age 16 in two national British birth cohorts.

1996 • 118 citations

The relationship between asthma admission rates, routes of admission, and socioeconomic deprivation

1996 • 115 citations

Socioeconomic status and indicators of asthma in children.

1995 • 115 citations

Treatment Adherence Among Low-Income Children With Asthma

1998 • 114 citations

Guidelines and realities of asthma management. The Philadelphia story.

1997 • 110 citations

INFLUENCE OF MORBIDITY, ILLNESS LABEL, AND SOCIAL, FAMILY, AND HEALTH SERVICE FACTORS ON DRUG TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD ASTHMA

1981 • 110 citations

Prospective controlled evaluation of the effect of a community based asthma education centre in a multiracial working class neighbourhood.

1994 • 106 citations

Risk factors for recurrent emergency department visits for asthma.

1995 • 97 citations

Clustered randomised trial of an intervention to improve the management of asthma: Greenwich asthma study

1999 • 96 citations

Socioeconomic Variation in Asthma Hospitalization: Excess Utilization or Greater Need?

1999 • 95 citations

Geographical and socioeconomic variation in the prevalence of asthma symptoms in English and Scottish children

1999 • 95 citations

The impact of socioeconomic status on the intensity of ambulatory treatment and health outcomes after hospital discharge for adults with asthma

1994 • 89 citations

Bronchial hyperresponsiveness in two populations of Australian schoolchildren. II. Relative importance of associated factors

1987 • 89 citations

Consistent effects of high socioeconomic status and low birth order, and the modifying effect of maternal smoking on the risk of allergic disease during childhood

1998 • 86 citations

Health service accessibility and deaths from asthma in 401 local authority districts in England and Wales, 1988-92

1997 • 83 citations

Evaluation of a school-based asthma education program for inner-city children

1997 • 82 citations

Socioeconomic Status in Childhood Asthma

1989 • 81 citations

Factors Associated With Emergency Department Dependence of Patients With Asthma

1997 • 81 citations

Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Asthma in Middle Class Children

1997 • 80 citations

Influence of ethnic group on asthma treatment in children in 1990-1: national cross sectional study

1996 • 78 citations

Demographc Influences on Asthma Hospital Admission Rates in New York City

1994 • 77 citations

Asthma Hospitalization Rates and Socioeconomic Status in New York State (1987-1993)

1999 • 75 citations

Racial differences in emergency department use persist despite allergist visits and prescriptions filled for antiinflammatory medications

1998 • 70 citations

Income level and asthma prevalence and care patterns.

1997 • 70 citations

Hospital admissions for asthma in east london: associations with characteristics of local general practices, prescribing, and population

1997 • 69 citations

Time trends in respiratory symptoms in childhood over a 24 year period.

1993 • 65 citations

Health care use by inner-city patients with asthma

1997 • 65 citations

Social deprivation and asthma

1997 • 64 citations

Blood Transfusion and Lung Function in Children with Thalassemia Major

1992 • 64 citations

The relationship between severe asthma and social class

1993 • 62 citations

Variations in hospitalization rates for asthma among Black and minority ethnic communities

1998 • 58 citations

Asthma prevalence and deprivation: a small area analysis

1999 • 54 citations

Ethnic differences in prevalence of asthma symptoms and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in New Zealand schoolchildren.

1989 • 51 citations

Risk Factors for Asthmatic Patients Requiring Intubation. III. Observations in Young Adults

1996 • 47 citations

The Role of Cockroach Allergy and Exposure to Cockroach Allergen in Causing Morbidity Among Inner-City Children With Asthma

1997 • 44 citations

Characteristics of Asthma Mortality and Morbidity in African-Americans

1993 • 43 citations

Association between asthma and family size between 1977 and 1994

1999 • 42 citations

Acute asthma in asian patients: Hospital admissions and duration of stay in a district with a high immigrant population

1986 • 41 citations

Socio‐economic disadvantage, quality of medical care and admission for acute severe asthma

1997 • 38 citations

Cockroach allergy in Kentucky: a comparison of inner city, suburban, and rural small town populations.

1994 • 36 citations

Organisation of asthma care: what difference does it make? A systematic review of the literature.

1996 • 34 citations

Patterns of Asthma Death and Near-Death in an Inner-City Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

1995 • 30 citations

Guidelines and realities of asthma management. The Philadelphia story

1997 • 30 citations

Geographical and social class effects on asthma mortality in England and Wales

1995 • 29 citations

Social Factors Associated With Behavioral Problems in Children With Asthma

1995 • 28 citations

Differences in Follow-Up Visits Between African American and White Medicaid Children Hospitalized With Asthma

1997 • 26 citations

Trends in Asthma-Related Admissions Among American Indian and Alaskan Native Children From 1979 to 1989

1994 • 22 citations

Is it “urban” or is it “asthma”?

1996 • 13 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations