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Roy Grant, MA, Shawn Bowen, MD, Diane E. McLean, MD, PhD, Douglas Berman, Karen Redlener, MS and Irwin Redlener, MD

Roy Grant and Karen Redlener are with The Children’s Health Fund, New York, NY. Shawn Bowen is with Community Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Diane E. McLean is with New York–Presbyterian Medical Centers, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Douglas Berman is with Care for the Homeless, New York. Irwin Redlener is with Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Roy Grant, MA, Director of Research, The Children’s Health Fund, 215 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027 (e-mail: rgrant{at}chfund.org).

Homeless children in New York City had an extremely high asthma prevalence—40%—in a cross-sectional study at 3 shelters (n=740) during 1998 to 1999. We used the same protocol to summarize subsequent data through December 2002. Asthma prevalence was 33% (n=1636); only 15% of the children previously diagnosed were taking an asthma controller medication. Emergency department use was 59%. These data were used to support a class action lawsuit that was resolved in favor of homeless children with asthma in New York City.