The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke

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dc.contributor.advisorMyers, Jonnyen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorBurney, Peteren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorEhrlich, Rodneyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-12T12:03:50Z
dc.date.available2017-12-12T12:03:50Z
dc.date.issued1999en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study was undertaken in the light of the increasing importance of childhood asthma worldwide, an apparently large burden of asthma morbidity disease in Cape Town, high local smoking rates and a lack of epidemiologic information on childhood asthma in South Africa. Two detailed literature reviews were undertaken. The first covered epidemiologic aspects of asthma and allergy in South Africa, as inferred from allergen and atopy studies, clinical series, and studies of prevalence and mortality. The second addressed the international literature on whether environmental tobacco smoke is associated with asthma, wheeze or bronchial hyperresponsiveness in general and asthmatic populations of children. This thesis is based on a self-administered questionnaire survey of the parents of 1 955 sub-8 pupils (90% response rate), aged 7 to 9 years, in Mitchell's Plain, a large, working class area of Cape Town Five empirical questions were asked: 1) is the prevalence of asthma and wheezing in primary school children? (2) What is the reliability (across two questionnaires) of questions about wheezing and asthma? 3) What are the household risk factors for wheezing and asthma; in particular, to what extent is household environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) a risk factor for asthma/wheeze? 4) Among children with asthma/wheeze, is there an association between ETS exposure and bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR), and 5) To what extent is asthma underrecognised and undertreated?en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationEhrlich, R. (1999). <i>The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26571en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationEhrlich, Rodney. <i>"The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26571en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationEhrlich, R. 1999. The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Ehrlich, Rodney AB - This study was undertaken in the light of the increasing importance of childhood asthma worldwide, an apparently large burden of asthma morbidity disease in Cape Town, high local smoking rates and a lack of epidemiologic information on childhood asthma in South Africa. Two detailed literature reviews were undertaken. The first covered epidemiologic aspects of asthma and allergy in South Africa, as inferred from allergen and atopy studies, clinical series, and studies of prevalence and mortality. The second addressed the international literature on whether environmental tobacco smoke is associated with asthma, wheeze or bronchial hyperresponsiveness in general and asthmatic populations of children. This thesis is based on a self-administered questionnaire survey of the parents of 1 955 sub-8 pupils (90% response rate), aged 7 to 9 years, in Mitchell's Plain, a large, working class area of Cape Town Five empirical questions were asked: 1) is the prevalence of asthma and wheezing in primary school children? (2) What is the reliability (across two questionnaires) of questions about wheezing and asthma? 3) What are the household risk factors for wheezing and asthma; in particular, to what extent is household environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) a risk factor for asthma/wheeze? 4) Among children with asthma/wheeze, is there an association between ETS exposure and bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR), and 5) To what extent is asthma underrecognised and undertreated? DA - 1999 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1999 T1 - The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke TI - The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26571 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationEhrlich R. The epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smoke. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Health Sciences ,Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 1999 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26571en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicineen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Health Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherCommunity Healthen_ZA
dc.subject.otherAstmaen_ZA
dc.titleThe epidemiology of asthma and wheeze in primary school children in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, with special reference to the role of environmental tobacco smokeen_ZA
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