The Hidden Asthma Epidemic in Immigrant Subpopulations

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsLaura CorlinLaura Corlin is an environmental health student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering in Boston, MA. Her research and advocacy focus on characterizing and mitigating health disparities.Doug BruggeDoug Brugge is a professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He became interested in the causes of asthma when his students noticed that foreign-born Chinese immigrant children were less likely to have asthma than U.S.-born children Chinese children.Notes1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Asthma—BRFSS 201—Table L1 Adult Self-Reported Lifetime Asthma Prevalence Rate (Percent) and Prevalence (Number) by State or Territory,” 2013, http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/brfss/2011/tablel1.htm (accessed September 21, 2013).2. K. B. Weiss, P. J. 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