Table 2

Access to medical care and asthma management practices for children in three public housing developments in Boston


Franklin Hill
West Broadway
Washington Beech
Total
p-value (Wilcoxon rank-sum test)

% with doctor to call other than emergency room
68%
(N = 41)
89%
(N = 27)
29%
(N = 7)
72%
(N = 75)
0.005
% with written asthma action plan
39%
(N = 41)
46%
(N = 24)
10%
(N = 10)
37%
(N = 75)
0.14
% with peak flow meter
28%
(N = 40)
33%
(N = 27)
10%
(N = 10)
27%

0.37
% of persistent asthmatics using long-term control medication
21%
(N = 19)
57%
(N = 21)
14%
(N = 7)
36%
(N = 47)
0.03

Levy et al. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2004 3:13   doi:10.1186/1476-069X-3-13