In the October 2018 edition of Family & Community Health an article examines “the relationship between child asthma and features associated with neighborhood poverty, including safety, social cohesion, informal social control, collective efficacy, and disorder.” The study included 3010 children from low-income neighborhoods. The results showed “the relationship between asthma and poverty is accounted for by family-level characteristics, but informal social control remains significantly and positively related to asthma.”
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