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SUBMITTER: Brewer M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728803 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brewer Mackenzie M Kimbro Rachel Tolbert RT Denney Justin T JT Osiecki Kristin M KM Moffett Brady B Lopez Keila K
Health & place 20170220
Utilizing over 140,000 geocoded medical records for a diverse sample of children ages 2-12 living in Houston, Texas, we examine whether a comprehensive set of neighborhood social and environmental characteristics explain racial and ethnic disparities in childhood asthma. Adjusting for all individual risk factors, as well as neighborhood concentrated disadvantage, particulate matter, ozone concentration, and race/ethnic composition, reduced but did not fully attenuate the higher odds of asthma di ...[more]