Even as asthma interventions that address individual patients’ social risks had not been considered as determinants in the healthcare framework, these are closely associated with reduction in hospital visits among asthmatic children. A recent study,  reported in JAMA Pediatrics, says social risk interventions among children with asthma  resulted in significant decrease in asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations. 

“Asthma interventions that address individual patients’ social risks — in particular, those that focus on improved health literacy, health care access, home environment remediation and peer support — were associated with reduced health care utilization among children with asthma in our review,” said the lead author of the study– Jordan Nichole Tyris, a hospital medicine fellow in the division of hospital medicine at Children’s National Hospital and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C.