Asthma Prevalence and Severity in Arab American Communities in the Detroit Area, Michigan
dc.contributor.author | Jamil, Hikmet | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hammad, Adnan S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Savoie, Kathryn L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Nriagu, Jerome O. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Mary | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:28:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:28:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Johnson, Mary; Nriagu, Jerome; Hammad, Adnan; Savoie, Kathryn; Jamil, Hikmet; (2005). "Asthma Prevalence and Severity in Arab American Communities in the Detroit Area, Michigan." Journal of Immigrant Health 7(3): 165-173. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44945> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-3629 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1096-4045 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44945 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=15900417&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Immigrant populations provide a unique intersection of cultural and environmental risk factors implicated in asthma etiology. This study focuses on asthma prevalence and severity in 600 Arab American households in metro Detroit, the largest immigrant reception zone for Arab Americans in North America. The survey method introduced a number of novel features: (a) a ranking scheme for the key environmental risk factors for asthma was used to derive an aggregated environmental risk index (ERI) for each household, and (b) an aggregate measure of asthma severity based on symptom frequency and intensity. Environmental risk factors and surrogates for socioeconomic status (SES) were found to be stronger predictors of asthma prevalence than asthma severity, while demographic variables such as English fluency and birth in the United States were better predictors of asthma severity than asthma prevalence. These results suggest that SES variables may be more reflective of environmental exposures in communities involved in this study, while English fluency and birth in the United States may be linked to health care access and utilization behavior that can influence the asthma management. We also found a significant relationship between asthma prevalence and degree of acculturation. Asthma prevalence was highest among moderately acculturated immigrants compared with new immigrants and those who were well acculturated, suggesting that among Arab Americans in the Detroit area, risk factors associated with new immigrant status are replaced by “western” risk factors as the population becomes more acculturated. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Indoor Air Pollution | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Medicine & Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.other | International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Asthma | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Prevalence | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Severity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Arab Americans | en_US |
dc.title | Asthma Prevalence and Severity in Arab American Communities in the Detroit Area, Michigan | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | ACCESS Community Health & Research Center, 6450 Maple Street, Dearborn, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | ACCESS Community Health & Research Center, 6450 Maple Street, Dearborn, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | ACCESS Community Health & Research Center, 6450 Maple Street, Dearborn, Michigan; Department of Family Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 15900417 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44945/1/10903_2005_Article_3673.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3673-x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Immigrant Health | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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