The impact of race, socioeconomic status, and access to care on the prevalence of asthma in middle age and older adults

Asthma is an important health condition because of the prevalence, financial burden, and impact on work, morbidity and mortality from the disease. Millions of Americans, about 29 million in 2009, where diagnosed with asthma in the United States Asthma causes thousands of deaths with about 4, 269 to 3, 388 deaths from asthma between 2001 and 2009 . This study examines the impact of socioeconomic status, and, access to care on the prevalence of asthma amongst adults 55 and over. The data utilized for this study was gathered from the California Health Interview Survey. The independent variables utilized in this study were race, socioeconomic status, and access to care. The dependent was the prevalence of asthma the results indicate that the consistent predictors of asthma prevalence are race, and poverty. The results of this study suggest that social workers, health professionals, scholars, and policy makers??? work collaboratively in the development and the implementation of interventions designed to address this public health concern