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| Ruchi S GuptaSummaryAffiliation: Children's Memorial Hospital Country: USA Publications
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The prevalence, severity, and distribution of childhood food allergy in the United StatesRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Smith Child Health Research Program, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60640, USA
Pediatrics 128:e9-17. 2011..The goal of this study was to better estimate the prevalence and severity of childhood food allergy in the United States...- The state of pediatric asthma in Chicago's Humboldt Park: a community-based study in two local elementary schoolsRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 750 N Lake Shore Dr, 10th Fl, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
BMC Pediatr 10:45. 2010.... - Food allergy knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of parents with food-allergic children in the United StatesRuchi S Gupta
Smith Child Health Research Program, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Pediatr Allergy Immunol 21:927-34. 2010.... - The association between community crime and childhood asthma prevalence in ChicagoRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ilinois, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 104:299-306. 2010..Little attention has been given to exposure to crime as a possible socioenvironmental contributor to variability in urban childhood asthma prevalence... - Food allergy knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of primary care physiciansRuchi S Gupta
Smith Child Health Research Program, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
Pediatrics 125:126-32. 2010..To provide insight into food allergy knowledge and perceptions among pediatricians and family physicians in the United States... - Development of the Chicago Food Allergy Research Surveys: assessing knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of parents, physicians, and the general publicRuchi S Gupta
Smith Child Health Research Program, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 9:142. 2009..The purpose of this paper is to detail the development of the Chicago Food Allergy Research Surveys to assess food allergy knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among these three populations... - Food allergy knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs in the United StatesRuchi S Gupta
Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 103:43-50. 2009..Members of the general public play a significant role in the well-being of food-allergic children, although little is known about the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of food allergy among the public... - The protective effect of community factors on childhood asthmaRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 123:1297-304.e2. 2009..Asthma burden in the US is not evenly distributed. Although asthma prevalence varies widely across urban neighborhoods, little attention has been paid to the community as a key contributor... - Eliminating asthma disparities: is there evidence of progress?Ruchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Curr Opin Pulm Med 15:72-8. 2009..This review assesses the current status of asthma inequities from the perspective of disease development, progression, and outcomes... - Geographic variability in childhood asthma prevalence in ChicagoRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 121:639-645.e1. 2008..Childhood asthma prevalence has been shown to be higher in urban communities overall without an understanding of differences by neighborhood... - Characterizing community-based asthma knowledge in Chicago and its high risk neighborhoodsAnita M Malone
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Asthma 45:313-8. 2008..Important misconceptions exist about asthma triggers, signs and symptoms, especially among lower income African American communities, that should be addressed by physicians... - Food allergy knowledge, attitudes and beliefs: focus groups of parents, physicians and the general publicRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
BMC Pediatr 8:36. 2008..Focus groups were held as a preliminary step in the development of validated survey instruments to assess food allergy knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of parents, physicians, and the general public... - Variations in quality of life among caregivers of food allergic childrenElizabeth E Springston
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 105:287-294. 2010..Pediatric food allergy is a serious health problem in the United States. As the number of affected children increases, more caregivers are charged with the responsibility of managing their child's food allergy... - Child health in child care: a multi-state survey of Head Start and non-Head Start child care directorsRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies and Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Pediatr Health Care 23:143-9. 2009..Directors of Head Start (HS) and non-Head Start (non-HS) child care centers were surveyed to compare health consultation and screening for and prevalence of health risks among enrolled children... - The widening black/white gap in asthma hospitalizations and mortalityRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611 3071, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 117:351-8. 2006..Large racial differences in asthma morbidity and mortality have prompted research on new interventions, public awareness, and health policy efforts in the past decade... - The 2007 National Asthma Education and Prevention Program asthma guidelines: accelerating their implementation and facilitating their impact on children with asthmaRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies and Department of Pediatrics, Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2300 Children s Plaza, Box 157, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Pediatrics 123:S193-8. 2009..The goals of this report are to examine the adoption of earlier versions of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines and to suggest opportunities for rapid adoption of the newly released guidelines... - Opportunities for health promotion education in child careRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pediatrics 116:e499-505. 2005..We also sought to understand the health consultants' (health professionals serving as consultants to child care centers) current and desired roles in leading health promotion activities in child care settings...