da Cunha, SS;
Pujades-Rodriguez, M;
Barreto, ML;
Genser, B;
Rodrigues, LC;
(2007)
Ecological study of socio-economic indicators and prevalence of asthma in schoolchildren in urban Brazil.
BMC Public Health
, 7
, Article 205. 10.1186/1471-2458-7-205.
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Abstract
There is evidence of higher prevalence of asthma in populations of lower socio-economic status in affluent societies, and the prevalence of asthma is also very high in some Latin American countries, where societies are characterized by a marked inequality in wealth. This study aimed to examine the relationship between estimates of asthma prevalence based on surveys conducted in children in Brazilian cities and health and socioeconomic indicators measured at the population level in the same cities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ecological study of socio-economic indicators and prevalence of asthma in schoolchildren in urban Brazil |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-7-205 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-205 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2007 da Cunha et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC1988821 |
| Keywords: | Adolescent, Asthma, Brazil, Child, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Databases, Factual, Environmental Monitoring, Epidemiological Monitoring, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Poverty, Prevalence, Regression Analysis, Schools, Social Class, Socioeconomic Factors, Urban Health |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1399536 |
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