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Research Articles

The moderating role of housing quality on concentrated poverty and asthma-related emergency department visits among Hispanics/Latinos

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Pages 1816-1823 | Received 31 Jan 2023, Accepted 04 Mar 2023, Published online: 29 Mar 2023
 

Abstract

Background

Rates of asthma-related emergency department visits have been shown to vary significantly by place (i.e. neighborhood) and race/ethnicity. The moderating factors of asthmatic events among Hispanic/Latino-specific populations are known to a much lesser degree.

Objective

To assess the extent to which housing moderates the effect of poverty on Hispanic/Latino-specific asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits at an ecological level.

Methods

Using data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) and the 2016–2017 U.S. Census, a cross-sectional ecological analysis at the census tract-level was conducted. Crosswalk files from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were used to associate zip codes to census tracts. Negative binomial regression was used to estimate rate ratios.

Results

The effect of poverty on asthma-related ED visits was significantly moderated by the median year of housing structures built. The effect of mid-level poverty (RR = 1.57, 95% CI 1.27, 1.95) and high-level poverty (RR = 1.47, 95% CI 1.22, 1.78) in comparison to low-level poverty, was significantly greater among census tracts with housing built prior to 1965 in comparison to census tract with housing built between 1965 and 2020.

Conclusion

Communities with older housing structures tend to be associated with increased Hispanic/Latino ED visits apart from affluent communities.

Declaration of interest

The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

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Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.

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