Black children and teens hospital asthma readmissions owing to hardships

It is a sorry fact that the black children and teens are twice more prone to readmission to hospitals on account of asthma owing to the greater economic and social hardships. The researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center revealed that 11% percent of the white children were readmitted in a year, while the figure for the black children is 23%- a clear implication of the prevalent disparity on economic as well as social grounds. Robert Kahn, one of the researchers, hinting at the changes in clinical practice said,” Transportation barriers might be addressed with home delivery of medications, job barriers with a connection to job training, and both helped by a community health worker. The goal would be upstream, community-based prevention, rather than paying for readmissions.” Additional aspects like tobacco exposure, air and water pollution, etc explain the disparities further.