Predicting Children's Asthma Hospitalizations: Rural and Urban Differences in Texas

Autor/in	Grineski, Sara E.
Titel	Predicting Children's Asthma Hospitalizations: Rural and Urban Differences in Texas
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 74 (2009) 2, S.201-219 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Social Class; American Indians; Diseases; Rural Urban Differences; Social Indicators; Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Prediction; Chronic Illness; Hospitals; Regression (Statistics); Hispanic Americans; African Americans; Social Influences; Incidence; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; American Indian; Indianer; Disease; Krankheit; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Vorhersage; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Krankengymnast; Krankenhaus; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Afroamerikaner; Sozialer Einfluss; Vorkommen
Abstract	Asthma is the number one chronic health condition facing children today; however, little is known about rural-urban inequalities in asthma. This "area effects on health" study examines rural-urban differences in childhood asthma hospitalizations within the state of Texas using negative binomial regression models. Effects associated with residence on the Texas-Mexico border, where the majority of rural Texas children live, are also considered. Neighborhood-level social class and proportion of the population that was native-born Hispanic were significant predictors of asthma hospitalizations, independent of rural-urban location. Conversely, proportion African American, Native American, and foreign-born Hispanic, not a citizen; median year of home construction; and neighborhood location on the Texas-Mexico border were conditional on urban-rural location, and the strength of these predictors was stronger in rural areas. This suggests that locational and social factors intersect in marginalized spaces (like the rural and border regions of Texas) to create vulnerability to asthma hospitalizations. (Contains 2 footnotes, 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10