Time's up to adopt a biopsychosocial model to address racial and ethnic disparities in asthma outcomes

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Health and Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex. Electronic address: ematsui@utexas.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.

Editorial

Elizabeth C Matsui et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Jun.

. 2019 Jun;143(6):2024-2025.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.03.015. Epub 2019 Mar 30.

¹ Department of Population Health and Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex. Electronic address: ematsui@utexas.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.

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Keywords: Childhood asthma; biopsychosocial model; disparities; inner-city asthma.

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