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ArticleCurrent allergy and asthma reports2020

Structural and Social Determinants of Health in Asthma in Developed Economies: a Scoping Review of Literature Published Between 2014 and 2019.

Kathryn Sullivan, Neeta Thakur

Open access · hybridAbstract readScoping Review
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Article in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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87citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathryn SullivanDepartment of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Neeta ThakurDepartment of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. neeta.thakur@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Social adversities and asthma: a new phenotype?K23HL125551 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI THAKUR, NEETA · 2016 to 2020
$1.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL125551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewUsing the WHO Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health, this review provides a discussion of recent epidemiologic, mechanistic, and intervention studies of structural and social determinants of health and asthma outcomes covering the period from 2014 to 2019. RECENT

findingsA majority of studies and interventions to date focus on the intermediary determinants of health (e.g., housing), which as the name suggests, exist between the patient and the upstream structural determinants of health (e.g., housing policy). Race/ethnicity remains a profound social driver of asthma disparities with cumulative risk from many overlapping determinants. A growing number of studies on asthma are beginning to elucidate the underlying mechanisms that connect social determinants to human disease. Several effective interventions have been developed, though a need for large-scale policy research and innovation remains. Strong evidence supports the key role of the structural determinants, which generate social stratification and inequity, in the development and progression of asthma; yet, interventions in this realm are challenging to develop and therefore infrequent. Proximal, intermediary determinants have provided a natural starting point for interventions, though structural interventions have the most potential for major impact on asthma outcomes. Further research to investigate the interactive effect of multiple determinants, as well as intervention studies, specifically those that are cross-sector and propose innovative strategies to target structural determinants, are needed to address asthma morbidities, and more importantly, close the asthma disparity gap.

Indexed as

AsthmaDeveloped CountriesEthnicityHealth Status DisparitiesHousingHumansSocial Determinants of HealthWorld Health OrganizationAsthmaCommunity violenceDiscriminationEthnicityFood insecurityGreenspaceHealth disparitiesHousingNeighborhoodNutritionPolicyPsychosocial stressRaceRacismSocial determinants of healthSocioeconomic statusStructural determinants of health

Identifiers

PMID32030507
PMCPMC7005090
OpenAlexW3005031958

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