Pediatric patient asthma-related emergency department visits and admissions in Washington, DC, from 2001–2004, and associations with air quality, socio-economic status and age group 英文参考文献.docVIP

Environmental Health BioMedCentral Research Open Access Pediatric patient asthma-related emergency department visits and admissions in Washington, DC, from 2001–2004, and associations with air quality, socio-economic status and age group Steven M Babin*1, Howard S Burkom1, Rekha S Holtry1, Nathaniel R Tabernero1, Lynette D Stokes2,3, John O Davies-Cole2, Kerda DeHaan2 and Deitra H Lee2,4 Address: 1Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, USA, 2Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, Bureau of Epidemiology and Health Risk Assessment, District of Columbia Department of Health, 825 North Capitol Street NE, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20002, USA, 3Currently employed by the Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation, US Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210, USA and 4Currently employed by the US Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC 20548, USA Email: Steven M Babin* - steven.babin@; Howard S Burkom - howard.burkom@; Rekha S Holtry - rekha.holtry@; Nathaniel R Tabernero - nathaniel.tabernero@; Lynette D Stokes - stokes.lynette@; John O Davies-Cole - john.davies-cole@; Kerda DeHaan - kerda.dehaan@; Deitra H Lee - leedh@ * Corresponding author Published: 21 March 2007 Received: 10 August 2006 Accepted: 21 March 2007 Environmental Health 2007, 6:9 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-6-9 This article is available from: /content/6/1/9 ? 2007 Babin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The District of Columbia (DC) Department of Health, under a grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, established an Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. As part of this program, the goals of this co