Studies & Reports
One of our core strategies at RAMP is to keep the asthma field abreast of best practices, timely opportunities, and emerging research in order to build capacity for reducing the inequitable burden of asthma. We do this by cultivating an extensive hub of asthma-related information across a wide range of topics, including asthma management and healthcare, housing, air pollution, schools, the built environment, and more.
The majority of studies and reports that you’ll see below were published by partner organizations, agencies, and research institutions. To specifically see resources created by RAMP, check out RAMP Tools & Publications.
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Building CHW Capacity: Meeting Recordings
RAMP hosts regular convenings for CHWs, promotoras, and others providing asthma education. Below are select recordings of those meetings. For additional information about future meetings, including how to join them, please visit “Building the capacity of CHWs and promotoras to improve asthma management” here. Community Air Quality Monitoring. Presented by David Chang, MA, Project Coordinator/Health…
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Review Examines Housing Impact on Asthma Disparities
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology’s November 2021 edition contains an article examining the impact housing, as a social determinant of health, can have on asthma disparities. Researchers note that “In many minority communities, poor housing conditions and value are a legacy of historical policies and practices imbued with structural racism, including redlining, displacement,…
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Nursing Students Help Reduce ‘Asthma Van’ No-Shows using Telehealth
A study in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing’s April 2021 edition contains an article examining the impact of telehealth on no-show rates for a pediatric asthma mobile van. The researchers implemented an option for visits where parents could attend their child’s appointments while the parents were off-site. Using this method, they found that no-show rates…
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Study Confirms Fine Particulate Air Pollution Disproportionately Affects People of Color in the United States
An article in the April 2021 edition of Science Advances details how ambient fine particulate air pollution polluters disproportionately affect people of color in the United States. The study found “emission sources that disproportionately expose” people of color “are pervasive throughout society.” Fine particulate air pollution exposures are “higher than average for POC [People of…
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Inhaled Budesonide Shows Promise as a Treatment of Early COVID-19
As shared in RAMP’s previous updates on emerging research related to COVID-19 and asthma, multiple early reports of patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 showed that people with asthma and other chronic respiratory disease were significantly under-represented. Some researchers have suggested that asthma might provide some protection against severe COVID-19 outcomes. On April 9,…
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Freight Automation: Dangers, Threats, and Opportunities for Health and Equity
Freight Automation: Dangers, Threats, and Opportunities for Health and Equity takes a deep dive into how automation in the freight transportation system affects the health of workers, communities, and the environment — and also how these effects will be inequitably felt by people with low incomes and communities of color. Background The freight transportation system in…
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Study Highlights Associations Between Environmental Chemicals and Asthma
In the February edition of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health contains an article examining the connections between environmental chemicals and asthma. The study reports “environmental chemicals, prioritized for investigation in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative… which are associated or possible associated with asthma.” The researchers note “exposures to polyaromatic hydrocarbons and…
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Researchers Examine Environmental and Lifestyle Determinants of Asthma Using Exposome Approach
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health’s January 2021 edition features an article examining asthma using the exposome approach, looking at all exposures of an individual and how they relate to health. The researchers review recent studies “linking multiple families of exposures to asthma-related outcomes.” While they note studies “showed differences in terms…