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Tregony Simoneau1, Jonathan M Gaffin

  • 1Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Current Opinion in Pediatrics
|March 2, 2023
PubMed

Insights

Socioeconomic factors significantly impact pediatric asthma. Addressing social determinants like housing and environmental exposures is crucial for improving child asthma outcomes and reducing health disparities.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric pulmonology
  • Environmental health
  • Health equity

Background:

  • Socioeconomic factors are increasingly recognized as critical drivers of pediatric asthma incidence and morbidity.
  • Social determinants of health, including housing, environmental exposures, healthcare access, and systemic racism, significantly influence asthma outcomes in children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and assess recent pediatric literature on socioeconomic drivers of asthma.
  • To examine the impact of social determinants of health on pediatric asthma incidence and morbidity.
  • To highlight the role of housing, environmental exposures, healthcare access, and systemic racism in pediatric asthma.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of recent pediatric literature.
  • Analysis of studies focusing on socioeconomic factors and asthma.
  • Synthesis of evidence on social determinants of health and their impact on pediatric asthma outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Children in low-income urban areas face higher exposure to indoor and outdoor asthma triggers (molds, pests, smoke, pollutants).
  • Community-based asthma education (telehealth, school-based centers, peer mentors) improves medication adherence and outcomes.
  • Historical racist housing policies (redlining) created persistent segregated neighborhoods with poor conditions, exacerbating asthma disparities.

Conclusions:

  • Routine screening for social determinants of health is essential in clinical settings to identify at-risk pediatric asthma patients.
  • Interventions targeting social risk factors show promise for improving pediatric asthma outcomes.
  • Further research is needed to develop and evaluate targeted social risk interventions for pediatric asthma.
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