Impact of Hurricane Harvey on Inpatient Asthma Hospitalization Visits Within Southeast Texas, 2016-2019.

IF 2.3 4区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-25 DOI:10.1097/JOM.0000000000002928

Yiyao Li, Justin Buendia, Sabeena Sears, Mirela Ibrahimovic, Heather Bertero, Rachel Wiseman, Nimisha Bhakta

{"title":"Impact of Hurricane Harvey on Inpatient Asthma Hospitalization Visits Within Southeast Texas, 2016-2019.","authors":"Yiyao Li, Justin Buendia, Sabeena Sears, Mirela Ibrahimovic, Heather Bertero, Rachel Wiseman, Nimisha Bhakta","doi":"10.1097/JOM.0000000000002928","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Objective: The aim of the study is to estimate inpatient asthma hospital visit rates among impacted Texans in Public Health Region 6/5S during the year of and after Hurricane Harvey.Methods: Asthma inpatient hospitalization discharges were collected from the Texas Health Care Information Collection database (2016-2019).Results: Females (age-adjusted rates [AARs] = 4.8-5.0) and Black Texans (AARs = 5.0-8.1) experienced significantly higher AARs compared with males and White Texans during the year of and after Harvey. During the year of Hurricane Harvey, females were 1.49 times as likely to have an inpatient asthma visit compared with males, while Black Texans were 2.78 times as likely to have an inpatient asthma hospitalization compared with White Texans.Conclusions: Findings from this study may assist public health professionals and local officials to allocate future resources to the most impacted subgroups as well as establish effective processes to mitigate consequences.","PeriodicalId":16631,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"924-930"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002928","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/7/25 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Objective: The aim of the study is to estimate inpatient asthma hospital visit rates among impacted Texans in Public Health Region 6/5S during the year of and after Hurricane Harvey.

Methods: Asthma inpatient hospitalization discharges were collected from the Texas Health Care Information Collection database (2016-2019).

Results: Females (age-adjusted rates [AARs] = 4.8-5.0) and Black Texans (AARs = 5.0-8.1) experienced significantly higher AARs compared with males and White Texans during the year of and after Harvey. During the year of Hurricane Harvey, females were 1.49 times as likely to have an inpatient asthma visit compared with males, while Black Texans were 2.78 times as likely to have an inpatient asthma hospitalization compared with White Texans.

Conclusions: Findings from this study may assist public health professionals and local officials to allocate future resources to the most impacted subgroups as well as establish effective processes to mitigate consequences.

查看原文本刊更多论文

飓风哈维对2016-2019年德克萨斯州东南部哮喘住院患者住院就诊的影响。

目的：本研究的目的是估计飓风哈维前后6/5S公共卫生区受影响得克萨斯人的哮喘住院就诊率。方法：从得克萨斯州卫生保健信息收集数据库（2016-2019）中收集哮喘住院出院人数。结果：女性（年龄调整率[ARS]=4.8-5.0）和黑人得克萨斯人（AARs=5.0-8.1）与男性和德克萨斯白人相比，在哈维出生前后经历了显著更高的AARs。在飓风“哈维”期间，女性哮喘住院就诊的可能性是男性的1.49倍，而得克萨斯黑人住院治疗哮喘的可能性是得克萨斯白人的2.78倍。结论：这项研究的结果可能有助于公共卫生专业人员和地方官员将未来的资源分配给受影响最严重的亚组，并建立有效的程序来减轻后果。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

9.40%

发文量

402

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is an indispensable guide to good health in the workplace for physicians, nurses, and researchers alike. In-depth, clinically oriented research articles and technical reports keep occupational and environmental medicine specialists up-to-date on new medical developments in the prevention, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of environmentally induced conditions and work-related injuries and illnesses.