Health-Related Quality of Life and Everyday Functioning in the Flood-Affected Population in Germany - A Case Study of the 2021 Floods in West Germany

IF 4.3 2区 医学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Geohealth Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI:10.1029/2024GH001135
Nivedita Sairam, Anna Buch, Marie-Luise Zenker, Lisa Dillenardt, Michaela Coenen, Annegret H. Thieken, Caroline Jung-Sievers
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Abstract

Floods lead to adverse impacts not only in financial terms but also on the health of the exposed population. We report on health-related Quality of Life (QoL) and functioning in the population affected by the 2021 flooding in Germany using an empirical survey data set. Health-related QoL and functioning are represented by two scores–(a) The EuroQoL 5D Visual Analog Scale (EQ-5D VAS) and (b) The 12-Item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0), respectively. By applying an incremental linear regression model and Machine Learning models, we infer that health-related QoL and functioning are strongly negatively related to the psychological burden from those being affected by the flooding. This includes how often they think about the traumatic event. Home owners were found to have worse QoL and functioning than tenants. Household income and the status of repair/reconstruction of flood damages—in specific, insurance benefits, private donation and satisfactory claims compensation are associated with high health-related QoL and functioning. These findings highlight the importance of strengthening the health-related QoL of flood affected populations and emphasizes the strong association between recovery and health-related QoL and functioning of flood-affected populations.

德国受洪水影响人口的健康相关生活质量和日常功能——以2021年西德洪水为例
洪水不仅在财政方面造成不利影响,而且对受影响人口的健康也造成不利影响。我们使用实证调查数据集报告了受2021年德国洪水影响的人群的健康相关生活质量(QoL)和功能。与健康相关的生活质量和功能由两个分数表示- (a) EuroQoL 5D视觉模拟量表(EQ-5D VAS)和(b) 12项世界卫生组织残疾评估表(WHODAS 2.0)。通过应用增量线性回归模型和机器学习模型,我们推断与健康相关的生活质量和功能与受洪水影响的人的心理负担呈强烈负相关。这包括他们想起创伤性事件的频率。房主的生活质量和功能比租户差。家庭收入和洪水灾害的修复/重建状况(具体而言,保险福利、私人捐赠和令人满意的索赔赔偿)与较高的健康相关生活质量和功能相关。这些发现强调了加强洪水受灾人群健康相关生活质量的重要性,并强调了恢复与健康相关生活质量和洪水受灾人群功能之间的密切联系。
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Geohealth
Geohealth Environmental Science-Pollution
CiteScore
6.80
自引率
6.20%
发文量
124
审稿时长
19 weeks
期刊介绍: GeoHealth will publish original research, reviews, policy discussions, and commentaries that cover the growing science on the interface among the Earth, atmospheric, oceans and environmental sciences, ecology, and the agricultural and health sciences. The journal will cover a wide variety of global and local issues including the impacts of climate change on human, agricultural, and ecosystem health, air and water pollution, environmental persistence of herbicides and pesticides, radiation and health, geomedicine, and the health effects of disasters. Many of these topics and others are of critical importance in the developing world and all require bringing together leading research across multiple disciplines.
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