期刊
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
卷 148, 期 5, 页码 1121-1129出版社
MOSBY-ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.09.023
关键词
Asthma; housing; disparities; structural racism; social determinants of health
资金
- BUILD Health Challenge 2.0, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) matching funds
- CHOP PolicyLab, National Institutes of Health [K23HL136842, U01HL138687]
- Pennsylvania Department of Health [9239140621]
The burden of asthma disproportionately affects minority and low-income communities, with racial and socioeconomic disparities in asthma prevalence, exacerbations, and related death. Poor housing conditions in many minority communities are a legacy of historical policies and practices imbued with structural racism. Reinvesting in these neighborhoods and communities to provide healthy housing is crucial for promoting asthma health equity.
The burden of asthma disproportionately affects minority and low-income communities, resulting in racial and socioeconomic disparities in asthma prevalence, asthma exacerbations, and asthma-related death. Social determinants of health are increasingly implicated as root causes of disparities, and healthy housing is perhaps the most critical social determinant in asthma health disparities. In many minority communities, poor housing conditions and value are a legacy of historical policies and practices imbued with structural racism, including redlining, displacement, and exclusionary zoning. As a result, poor-quality, substandard housing is a characteristic feature of many underrepresented minority communities. Consequently, structurally deficient housing stock cultivates home environments rife with indoor asthma triggers. In this review we consider the historical context of urban housing policies and practices and how these policies and practices have contributed to the substandard housing conditions for many minoritized children in the present day. We describe the impact of poor housing quality on asthma and interventions that have attempted to mitigate its influence on asthma symptoms and health care utilization. We discuss the need to promote asthma health equity by reinvesting in these neighborhoods and communities to provide healthy housing. (J Allergy Clin Immunol 2021;148:1 121-9.)
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