Ethnic differences in asthma treatment among Swedish adolescents: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity.
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English
Authors:
Cantarero Arevalo, Lourdes
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Perez Vicente, Raquel
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Juarez, Sol Pia
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Merlo, Juan
Department:
Social Epidemiology
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University
EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
Project:
Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity
Social Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Group:
Social Epidemiology
Abstract:
Adolescents with immigrant or ethnic minority background suffering from asthma receive on average less appropriate anti-asthmatic medication (AAM) than the majority population. However, those findings are based on analyses of differences between group averages which prevents our understanding of individual heterogeneity around the averages. Taking into account individual socioeconomic factors and medical needs, we performed multilevel analysis in order to evaluate if maternal country of birth (MCOB) accurately identifies adolescents with inappropriate AAM use.
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