When Health Disparities Hit Home: Redlining Practices, Air Pollution, and Asthma.
- Resource Type
- editorial
- Authors
- Bose, Sonali; Madrigano, Jaime; Hansel, Nadia N.
- Source
- American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine; 10/1/2022, Vol. 206 Issue 7, p803-804, 2p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 1073449X
The article offers information on asthma which disproportionately burdens minority and low-income populations and factors such as poor housing quality, the indoor environment and ambient pollutants which have consistently been linked to worse asthma outcomes. Topics include considered there has been increasing awareness of the role of institutional racial bias in creating and perpetuating respiratory health disparities.