Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Doctor of Public Health (DrPH)

School

Public Health

Advisor

Sumner W. Davis

Abstract

A lack of adequate healthcare access can negatively affect asthma management. The purpose of this study was to understand whether there was an association between source of care and asthma management. This study provides important insights concerning the changing landscape of how individuals receive asthma treatment and manage their asthma during a pandemic. Asthma management and asthma care have been studied; however, results have been inconclusive in relation to the barriers to health that are experienced among various adult age groups. Identifying additional subgroup characteristics could provide insight into where health practitioners, practice management, and policymakers direct healthcare resources. The 2020 California Health Interview Survey is a public use database with 22,160 surveyed participants. Bronfenbrenner's social ecological model was used in this study to explain how healthcare access, delays of needed care, and usual source of care likely influenced asthma management for adults between the ages of 35 and 65. The information was used to understand the relationship between asthma status, healthcare access, usual source of health care, asthma management, and need to delay care using descriptive statistics, chi-square test of association, and logistics regression. This study focused on the healthcare influence during COVID-19 and asthma prevalence among individuals between the ages of 35 and 65. Thus, it led to the identification of another subset of the population that is likely to be at increased risk for developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.

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