Worldwide inequalities in care significantly impact respiratory health outcomes.1 2 Despite this, there are few studies examining how wheeze and asthma outcomes, including healthcare use and treatment decisions, vary with socioeconomic status and ethnicity in young children. Therefore, it is highly relevant to acknowledge the paper by D Lo et al , ‘Association between socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity, and health outcomes in preschool children with recurrent wheeze in England: a retrospective cohort study’. Healthcare data from almost 200 000 young children with documented wheeze and asthma based on diagnostic codes or prescriptions for asthma medication(s) were assessed. The authors present insights that children from the most deprived socioeconomic backgrounds and those with origins in South Asia and Africa used more acute healthcare services for wheeze and asthma exacerbations at both primary and secondary care levels. Children from more deprived socioeconomic backgrounds had a 20% higher …

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来自不同社会经济和种族背景的幼儿的护理不平等以及喘息和哮喘的负担


1 2 尽管如此，很少有研究检查喘息和哮喘结果（包括医疗保健使用和治疗决策）如何随幼儿的社会经济地位和种族而变化。因此，承认 D Lo 等人的论文“英格兰学龄前儿童复发性喘息的社会经济剥夺、种族和健康结果之间的关联：一项回顾性队列研究”具有高度相关性。根据诊断代码或哮喘药物处方，评估了近 200 000 名有记录的喘息和哮喘幼儿的医疗保健数据。作者提出了见解，即来自最贫困社会经济背景的儿童以及起源于南亚和非洲的儿童在初级和二级保健机构使用更多的急性医疗保健服务来治疗喘息和哮喘恶化。来自更贫困社会经济背景的儿童的 ...