Social deprivation and spatial clustering of childhood asthma in Australia

• Main Authors: Jahidur Rahman Khan (Author), Raghu Lingam (Author), Louisa Owens (Author), Katherine Chen (Author), Shivanthan Shanthikumar (Author), Steve Oo (Author), Andre Schultz (Author), John Widger (Author), K. Shuvo Bakar (Author), Adam Jaffe (Author), Nusrat Homaira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness among children in Australia. While childhood asthma prevalence varies by region, little is known about variations at the small geographic area level. Identifying small geographic area variations in asthma is critical for highl...