Structural racism and readmission for childhood asthma-a quest for causality

J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 Nov;148(5):1165-1166. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.08.028. Epub 2021 Sep 20.

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Affiliation

¹ Dr von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany. Electronic address: markus.ege@med.lmu.de.

PMID: 34547369
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.08.028

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Keywords: Epidemiology; causality; confounder; global ancestry; mediator; structural racism; structure equation model.

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Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Asthma* / epidemiology
Causality
Child
Humans
Patient Readmission
Racism*