Health Service Deficits and School-Aged Children With Asthma: A Population-Based Study Using Data From the 2007-2008 National Survey of Child Health

Both African American and other/multiracial school-aged children were at greater risk of having asthma than either Caucasian or Hispanic children. Three vulnerable subgroups of school-aged children with asthma-rural, Hispanic, and those of low income were the most likely to have health service deficits.