Racial and ethnic minorities of low socioeconomic status residing in urban environments currently referred to as inner cities appear to represent a population that is disproportionately at high risk for asthma morbidity and mortality. Epidemiologic studies suggest that key risk factors contributing to asthma morbidity within the inner city include social demography, the physical environment (indoor and outdoor), and health care access and quality. This epidemiologic literature has helped to define opportunities for successful intervention strategies in these high-risk populations. Studies of the effectiveness of community-based and health system-based interventions with specific focus on inner-city populations are beginning to emerge in the literature.

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G astroenteritis which can affect all age groups, especially children under the age of 5, is an important health problem in both developed and developing countries worldwide with high mortality rate, causing socioeconomic burden [1, 2]. It can be classified as acute, dysenteric or chronic. Acute gastroenteritis causing major outbreaks by viral, parasitic or bacterial agents has high morbidity and mortality all over the world as well as in Turkey. The most common etiologic factor of acute gastroenteritis is viral agents. Millions of diarrhea attacks and outpatient examinations are observing worldwide due to the viral gastroenteritis, and worse, more than 2 million children are hospitalized each year [1, 3]. İn the lead of rotaviruses, viral gastroenteritis can also caused by different viral agents that include norovirus, adenovirus, bocavirus, sapovirus and astrovirus [4]. In viral gastroenteritis, fecal-orally transmitted virus particles cross over the gastrointestinal tract and bind