Torie Grant1, Emily Croce2, Elizabeth C Matsui3. 1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. 2. The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas. 3. The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas. Electronic address: elizabeth.matsui@austin.utexas.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the growing body of literature on the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in asthma and asthma disparities. DATA SOURCES: A pubmed.gov search was performed to identify published literature on SDoH, asthma, asthma disparities, and race and ethnicity. Current asthma statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were reviewed. STUDY SELECTIONS: Relevant articles on SDoH, asthma, asthma disparities, and race and ethnicity were reviewed in detail. RESULTS: Black and Latinx Americans have a higher asthma prevalence and greater asthma morbidity than White Americans and also bear a disproportionate burden of SDoH. Inequities in SDoH are rooted in structural racism and population-level injustices that affect the socioeconomic status, physical environment, and health care access/quality of Black and Latinx Americans. There is evidence that racial/ethnic inequities in SDoH, such as socioeconomic status, neighborhood environment, housing, environmental exposures, and health care access/quality, contribute to excess burden of asthma prevalence/incidence, morbidity, exacerbations, and abnormal lung function among certain racial/ethnic populations. In addition, Black and Latinx communities experience high levels of long-term stress, which may increase asthma risk through direct effects on the immune system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activation. Long-term stress may also mediate the effects of SDoH on asthma. CONCLUSION: Although there is clear evidence linking SDoH to excess asthma risk and implicating SDoH in asthma disparities, the extent to which asthma disparities are explained by inequities in SDoH and the relative contributions of each of these SDoH to asthma disparities remain unclear. This knowledge is needed to effectively develop and test systems-level interventions targeting SDoH, with the ultimate goal of meaningfully reducing racial/ethnic asthma disparities.
OBJECTIVE: To synthesize the growing body of literature on the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in asthma and asthma disparities. DATA SOURCES: A pubmed.gov search was performed to identify published literature on SDoH, asthma, asthma disparities, and race and ethnicity. Current asthma statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were reviewed. STUDY SELECTIONS: Relevant articles on SDoH, asthma, asthma disparities, and race and ethnicity were reviewed in detail. RESULTS: Black and Latinx Americans have a higher asthma prevalence and greater asthma morbidity than White Americans and also bear a disproportionate burden of SDoH. Inequities in SDoH are rooted in structural racism and population-level injustices that affect the socioeconomic status, physical environment, and health care access/quality of Black and Latinx Americans. There is evidence that racial/ethnic inequities in SDoH, such as socioeconomic status, neighborhood environment, housing, environmental exposures, and health care access/quality, contribute to excess burden of asthma prevalence/incidence, morbidity, exacerbations, and abnormal lung function among certain racial/ethnic populations. In addition, Black and Latinx communities experience high levels of long-term stress, which may increase asthma risk through direct effects on the immune system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical activation. Long-term stress may also mediate the effects of SDoH on asthma. CONCLUSION: Although there is clear evidence linking SDoH to excess asthma risk and implicating SDoH in asthma disparities, the extent to which asthma disparities are explained by inequities in SDoH and the relative contributions of each of these SDoH to asthma disparities remain unclear. This knowledge is needed to effectively develop and test systems-level interventions targeting SDoH, with the ultimate goal of meaningfully reducing racial/ethnic asthma disparities.
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