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The Disproportionate Burden Of Asthma By Race, Sex, Income And Education, Lisa Elizabeth Stack
The Disproportionate Burden Of Asthma By Race, Sex, Income And Education, Lisa Elizabeth Stack
Wayne State University Dissertations
This paper seeks to understand the relationship of county level median air quality with adult asthma risk, and the disproportional adult asthma risk by sex, race, income and education, controlling for individual and county effects. The specific objectives of this work are to answer the following questions: 1) What is the difference exposure of the median AQI by race, controlling for county and individual effects? 2) What is the difference in exposure of the median AQI by sex, controlling for county and individual effects? 3) What is the difference in exposure of the median AQI by education, controlling for county …