Abstract
Despite the abundance of researches relating children and asthma, the racial/ethnic influence on asthma threat have not been fully explained. The aim was to conduct a consistent and new study on a large-scale nationally representative data, including a minority group that has been usually eliminated from racial/ethnic literature. The 2011-2012 National Survey of Children Health (NSCH) dataset was utilised. Asthma was more prevalent among African-American children (22.9%) more than white American children 13.1% (p ≤ .0001). Analysis of the multivariate model revealed a greater risk of asthma for the black African American children comparatively to white American children (adjusted OR 0.522, 95% CI 0.459-0.595). Our findings indicated that childhood asthma was associated with racial/ethnic status, especially with children with low income level.
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