CHIRAH is collaborative effort including investigators at Cook County's John Stroger Hospital and at Northwestern University to better understand the causes and effects of asthma in Chicago. Our main activities have been a survey of 48,917 children in the Chicago Public Schools and the Archdiocese of Chicago; a longitudinal study of 914 adults and children in the city of Chicago; and a pilot intervention study located in the Austin neighborhood.
CHIRAH News
Happy Summer from CHIRAH
In this issue: Neighborhoods; Are you Moving; How about schools; Asthma and Weight; Intervention Study; Publications; Suggestions;
Welcome to the first issue of the CHIRAH Newsletter
In this issue: Student Survey; Are you Moving; Main Study Recruitment; Telephone Follow-up; Pilot Study; Your Interviewers; Suggestions;
ASTHMA: IT'S WHERE YOU LIVE
Not just race. New research on lung disorder hints geography may play bigger role than ethnicity. Child asthma rates by zip code