Title: The impact of income level on childhood asthma in the USA: a secondary analysis study during 2011-2012

Authors: Jalal Al Alwan

Addresses: Department of Quality and Patient Safety/Quality Analytics Division, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare Center, Dhahran 34465, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract: Despite the abundance of researches relating children and asthma, the racial/ethnic influence on asthma threat have not been fully explained. The aim was to conduct a consistent and new study on a large-scale nationally representative data, including a minority group that has been usually eliminated from racial/ethnic literature. The 2011-2012 National Survey of Children Health (NSCH) dataset was utilised. Asthma was more prevalent among African-American children (22.9%) more than white American children 13.1% (p ≤ .0001). Analysis of the multivariate model revealed a greater risk of asthma for the black African American children comparatively to white American children (adjusted OR 0.522, 95% CI 0.459-0.595). Our findings indicated that childhood asthma was associated with racial/ethnic status, especially with children with low income level.

Keywords: childhood asthma; racial/ethnic influence; National Survey of Children Health; federal poverty level; USA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2021.113397

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2021 Vol.13 No.2, pp.174 - 180

Received: 15 Dec 2018
Accepted: 08 Apr 2019
Published online: 03 Mar 2021 *

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