Urban asthma and the neighbourhood environment in New York City

被引：120

作者：

Corburn, J

Osleeb, J

Porter, M

机构：

[1] CUNY Hunter Coll, Ctr Environm & Occupat Hlth, New York, NY 10010 USA

[2] CUNY Hunter Coll, Grad Ctr, Dept Geog, New York, NY 10021 USA

[3] CUNY, Grad Ctr, Earth & Environm Sci Dept, New York, NY USA

来源：

HEALTH & PLACE | 2006年 / 12卷 / 02期

关键词：

asthma; neighbourhood environment; housing; land use; geographic information science;

D O I：

10.1016/j.healthplace.2004.11.002

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Asthma is now the leading cause of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and missed school days in New York City's poorest neighbourhoods. While most research focuses on the influence of the indoor environment on asthma, this study examines the neighbourhood effects on childhood asthma, such as housing and ambient environmental hazards. Using Geographic Information Science (GIScience) we identify neighbourhoods with elevated concentrations of childhood asthma hospitalizations between 1997 and 2000 in US census tracts, analyze the sociodemographic, housing characteristics, and air pollution burdens from stationary, land use and mobile sources in these areas. The paper reveals the importance of distinguishing the specific and often different combinations of poor housing conditions, outdoor air pollution and noxious land uses that contribute to the high incidence of asthma in impoverished urban neighbourhoods. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：167 / 179

页数：13

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