Home/social environment and asthma profiles in a vulnerable community from Caracas: lessons for urban Venezuela?
No physical home environmental/risk factors turned out to be significantly associated with families reporting the presence of asthmatics. The high impact of asthma found in this Caracas slum underscores the realities of Venezuela's impoverished urban majority. To properly address this important challenge, our National Asthma Control Program needs to be reassessed.
This method can be used to quantify changes in life span due to health promotion, health care, and biological hardiness for men and women at each year of age and to relate this to health expenditures for the whole population.  The method is limited in that it cannot determine the relative impact of other factors that can affect life expectancy such as environmental changes or social trends.