Long term effects of childhood asthma on adult health
Long term effects of childhood asthma on adult health
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.03.007
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发表时间：
2010-05-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Neidell, Matthew J.
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作者：
Fletcher, Jason M.;Green, Jeremy C.;Neidell, Matthew J.
儿童哮喘是影响美国数百万儿童的主要慢性疾病，但对其潜在的长期后果知之甚少。在本文中，我们评估了儿童哮喘与年轻成人的几种结果之间的关系。为了克服早期研究中的许多方法学问题，我们估计了使用父母哮喘状态报告校正测量误差的同胞固定效应模型。在我们的首选规范中，我们发现儿童哮喘对一般健康状况、肥胖以及作为年轻成年人错过工作和上学日的长期影响。总的来说，我们的研究结果有助于社会科学中关于早期健康状况对晚年健康和社会结果影响的越来越多的文献，并表明哮喘的早期治疗可能对年轻人的健康和社会经济结果有长期的好处。(C)2010 Elsevier BV保留所有权利。
Childhood asthma is a major chronic condition affecting millions of children in this country, yet little is known about its potential long term consequences. In this paper, we estimate the relationship between childhood asthma and several outcomes as a young adult. To overcome many of the methodological issues plaguing earlier research on this topic, we estimate sibling fixed effect models that correct for measurement error using parental reports of asthma status. In our preferred specification, we find substantial long term impacts of childhood asthma on general health status, obesity, and missed work and school days as a young adult. Broadly, our findings contribute to the growing literature in social sciences on the impacts of early life health conditions on later life health and social outcomes and suggest early treatment of asthma may have long-run benefits on young adult health and socioeconomic outcomes. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.