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- Title
Subsidized Housing and Adult Asthma in Boston, 2010-2015.
- Authors
Mehta, Amar J.; Dooley, Daniel P.; Kane, John; Reid, Margaret; Shah, Snehal N.
- Abstract
Objectives. To examine whether subsidized housing, specifically public housing and rental assistance, is associated with asthma in the Boston, Massachusetts, adult population. Methods. We analyzed a pooled cross-sectional sample of 9554 adults taking part in 3 Boston Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys from 2010 to 2015. We estimated odds ratios for current asthma in association with housing status (public housing development [PHD] resident, rental assistance [RA] renter, non-RA renter, nonrenter nonowner, homeowner as reference) in logistic regression analyses adjusting for year, age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, and income. Results. The odds of current asthma were 2.02 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.35, 3.03) and 2.34 (95% CI = 1.60, 3.44) times higher among PHD residents and RA renters, respectively, than among homeowners. We observed smoking-related effect modifi- cation (interaction P = .04); elevated associations for PHD residents and RA renters remained statistically significant (P < .05) only among ever smokers. Associations for PHD residents and RA renters remained consistent in magnitude in comparison with non-RA renters who were eligible for subsidized housing according to income. Conclusions. Public housing and rental assistance were strongly associated with asthma in this large cross-sectional sample of adult Boston residents.
- Subjects
BOSTON (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States; HOUSING subsidies; ASTHMA risk factors; HOUSING &; health; DISEASES in adults; PUBLIC housing; HEALTH risk assessment; DISEASES; CONFIDENCE intervals; RISK assessment; SMOKING; SURVEYS; LOGISTIC regression analysis; RESIDENTIAL patterns; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; ODDS ratio; ADULTS
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2018, Vol 108, Issue 8, p1059
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2018.304468