Studies & Reports
One of our core strategies at RAMP is to keep the asthma field abreast of best practices, timely opportunities, and emerging research in order to build capacity for reducing the inequitable burden of asthma. We do this by cultivating an extensive hub of asthma-related information across a wide range of topics, including asthma management and healthcare, housing, air pollution, schools, the built environment, and more.
The majority of studies and reports that you’ll see below were published by partner organizations, agencies, and research institutions. To specifically see resources created by RAMP, check out RAMP Tools & Publications.
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CDC Releases Vital Signs Report on Asthma in Children
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a Vital Signs report which highlights its shared work with the Environmental Protection Agency in improving children’s health and extending those health benefits to all children. The report released in February 2018 focuses on the effects of asthma in children. Among the report’s findings, the CDC…
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Study Examines Asthma Mortality by Industry and Occupation
In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report’s January 2018 edition an article examined asthma mortality rates by industry and occupation. Researchers analyzed “multiple cause-of-death data for 1999-2016 and industry and occupation information collected from 26 states” for persons aged 15-64 years old. In reviewing this data, researchers found the annual age-adjusted asthma death rate per 1…
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Study Examines Link Between Prenatal and Early-Life Consumption of Fructose and Fructose-Containing Beverages and Childhood Asthma
An article released in the July 2017 edition of Annals of the American Thoracic Society examined the links between “intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children.” In order to explore these associations, researchers looked at both “maternal prenatal and early childhood intake of sugar sweetened beverages and fructose” and…
