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Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases

An Evidence-Based Look at Causes, Conditions, and Outcomes

  • Analyzes impactful, systematic interventions aimed at decreasing risk factors that disproportionally affect racial and ethnic minorities, and impoverished populations in regards to asthma and other allergic diseases
  • Written by experts in the field, covering disparities that adversely affect people who have experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on racial, socioeconomic, gender, geographic location, or other characteristics that are historically linked to discrimination or exclusion
  • Provides a unique reference, along with examples of programs and strategies that can help prevent or at least decrease such health care disparities in allergic diseases and care, including campaigns to reduce air pollution in inner city areas, control indoor allergen exposure, promote smoking cessation and prevent violence in neighborhoods

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Disparity on Allergic Conditions by Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. Disparity in Rhinitis and Rhinosinusitis

      • Alicia T. Widge, Anjeni Keswani
      Pages 125-133
    3. Disparities in Food Allergy

      • Ulyana Trytko, Hassan A. Ahmad, Leena Padhye, Mary C. Tobin
      Pages 135-144
    4. Asthma Health Disparities

      • Andrea A. Pappalardo, Molly A. Martin
      Pages 145-179
    5. Disparity in Atopic Dermatitis

      • Brandon E. Cohen, Nada Elbuluk, Sindhura Bandi
      Pages 181-190
  3. Providing Solutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
    2. Providing Feasible Solutions for an Asthmatic Impoverished Population

      • Arnaldo Capriles-Hulett, Mario Sánchez-Borges
      Pages 207-216
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 227-230

About this book

This book comprehensively and thoroughly reviews the current literature regarding the impact of health disparities and socioeconomic factors on allergic diseases outcomes: such as food allergies and anaphylaxis. The morbidity associated with these conditions is significantly higher in under-privileged populations around the world, including groups who have experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on racial, socioeconomic, gender, geographic location. Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases presents evidence and reviews studies from both developed and developing countries that witness health disparities in allergic disease.

Concise in format, Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases: An Evidence-Based Look at Causes, Conditions, and Outcomes is made up of 11 expertly written chapters and divided into two parts. It begins with an introductory on global health through an analysis of the theoretical framework of epidemiologic transition. Subsequent chapters then review the socioeconomic and racial variables in treating allergic diseases using a multifactorial approach. Part II discusses disparities in allergic conditions, including asthma health, rhinitis and rhinosinusitis, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis. The book concludes with an exploration of potential strategies to providing solutions for asthmatic impoverished populations.

Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases is a practical resource that can be used by researchers and clinicians in the field of allergy who are interested in learning about health related disparities in the context of allergic conditions or who seek solutions for this important issue.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rush University, Chicago, USA

    Mahboobeh Mahdavinia

About the editor

Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, MD., PhDAllergy and Immunology division / Internal Medicine Department
Rush University Medical Center 
Chicago,  IL



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases

  • Book Subtitle: An Evidence-Based Look at Causes, Conditions, and Outcomes

  • Editors: Mahboobeh Mahdavinia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31222-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31221-3Published: 03 January 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31222-0Published: 02 January 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Allergology, Health Policy

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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