Determinants of Health: Lifestyle and Environment
Location
Harkins 301, Providence College
Event Website
http://www.providence.edu/hpm/Pages/Conference.aspx
Start Date
31-3-2012 11:30 AM
End Date
31-3-2012 12:45 PM
Description
Asthma is one of the leading chronic diseases in children 17 years of age and under with nine million American children suffering from it. Previous studies to understand causal factors of disease including asthma tend to focus on the individual and sociocultural characteristics but there is little to no research using neighborhood characteristics, a factor that does influence health. Research shows that other community‐level environmental factors like collective efficacy, community structural factors, and neighborhood safety can affect a persons’ psychosocial well-being, and in turn increase morbidity. For this reason, researchers suggest that the need to understand asthma and its associated risk factors within the social and neighborhood contexts. This study examines if the neighborhood in which a child lives influences the child’s likelihood of having asthma.
Included in
Community Health Commons, Demography, Population, and Ecology Commons, Environmental Public Health Commons, Medicine and Health Commons, Place and Environment Commons, Respiratory Tract Diseases Commons
The Influence of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Existence of Asthma in Children
Harkins 301, Providence College
Asthma is one of the leading chronic diseases in children 17 years of age and under with nine million American children suffering from it. Previous studies to understand causal factors of disease including asthma tend to focus on the individual and sociocultural characteristics but there is little to no research using neighborhood characteristics, a factor that does influence health. Research shows that other community‐level environmental factors like collective efficacy, community structural factors, and neighborhood safety can affect a persons’ psychosocial well-being, and in turn increase morbidity. For this reason, researchers suggest that the need to understand asthma and its associated risk factors within the social and neighborhood contexts. This study examines if the neighborhood in which a child lives influences the child’s likelihood of having asthma.
https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/auchs/2012/panelb2/2
