Screening for asthma in Cantonese-speaking immigrant children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15355604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robyn O Greenfield (Boston University, corresponding author), Angela C Lee (0000-0003-3417-1310, Tufts University), Roland Tang (Boston University), Doug Brugge (0000-0002-6812-2720, Tufts University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-48 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMC Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-5-48 |
| PMID | 15904513 |
| PMCID | PMC1168903 |
| OpenAlex | W1588526125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
Our findings suggest that asthma diagnoses are higher for Chinese children who were born in the US suggesting that desegregation of data might reveal at risk subpopulations. Care needs to be taken when diagnosing asthma for Cantonese speakers because of the centrality of the word wheeze and the challenges of translation
Asthma · Environmental health · Population · Spirometry · Wheeze · Asthma and respiratory diseases · Demography · Medicine · Neuroscience of respiration and sleep · Pediatric health and respiratory diseases · Epidemiology · Immunology · Internal Medicine · Pediatrics
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2010 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |