Is Childhood Asthma Associated With Educational Level and Longest-Held Occupation?
| Autor: | Mazurek, Jacek M., Schleiff, Patricia L., Henneberger, Paul K. |
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SURVEYS ASTHMA COMPARATIVE studies CONFIDENCE intervals STATISTICAL correlation EMPLOYMENT EPIDEMIOLOGY MANAGEMENT MEDICAL personnel RESEARCH SEX distribution SOCIAL classes WORK environment LOGISTIC regression analysis DATA analysis SECONDARY analysis EDUCATIONAL attainment CROSS-sectional method RETROSPECTIVE studies DESCRIPTIVE statistics CHILDREN |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Epidemiology; Feb2012, Vol. 175 Issue 4, p279-288, 10p |
| Abstrakt: | Children with asthma can experience chronic morbidity that may interfere with education and career progression. The authors investigated retrospectively whether a history of childhood asthma is associated with educational level and longest-held occupation, by gender. Cross-sectional analysis included a nationally representative sample of 10,452 adults aged ≥20 years who participated in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2001–2004). Logistic regression was used to assess associations between a childhood-asthma history and educational level, employment, and longest-held occupation. An estimated 6.9% of men and 5.8% of women had a childhood-asthma history. Persons with a childhood-asthma history tended to have a higher educational level than those with no asthma history. Among those who ever worked, and after adjustment for age and race/ethnicity, men with a childhood-asthma history were more likely to work in health-diagnosing occupations, other professional occupations, and as cooks; women with a childhood-asthma history were more likely to work in management-related, entertainment-related, and health service occupations. Compared with those with no asthma history, persons with a childhood-asthma history tended to achieve a higher educational level and, if they worked, were more likely to work in particular occupations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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