Neighborhood Characteristics and Asthma Emergency Visits
MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci
Broschiertes Buch

Neighborhood Characteristics and Asthma Emergency Visits

Using Geographic Information Systems and Multilevel Analysis to Identify Underlying Community Factors

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Asthma is not equally distributed across regions, populations, or communities. This original research examines the spatial distribution of Central Harlem residents visiting the local Emergency Department for asthma treatment. Using geographic information systems to create new spatially-defined areas for analysis, the ecological study shows how archival data can be used to identify hot-spots or clusters of asthma emergency cases. It tests the hypothesis that the spatial distribution of patients residential addresses can be explained throughanalysis of environmental factors affectingneighborhood...