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Alternative Title:
Health Place
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.07.014
Personal Author:
Rosenthal, Joyce Klein ; Kinney, Patrick L. ; Metzger, Kristina B.
Rosenthal, Joyce Klein ; Kinney, Patrick L. ; Metzger, Kristina B. Less -
Description:
The health impacts of exposure to summertime heat are a significant problem in New York City (NYC) and for many cities and are expected to increase with a warming climate. Most studies on heat-related mortality have examined risk factors at the municipal or regional scale and may have missed the intra-urban variation of vulnerability that might inform prevention strategies. We evaluated whether place-based characteristics (socioeconomic/demographic and health factors, as well as the built and biophysical environment) may be associated with greater risk of heat-related mortality for seniors during heat events in NYC. As a measure of relative vulnerability to heat, we used the natural cause mortality rate ratio among those aged 65 and over (MRR65+), comparing extremely hot days (maximum heat index 100°F+) to all warm season days, across 1997-2006 for NYC's 59 Community Districts and 42 United Hospital Fund neighborhoods. Significant positive associations were found between the MRR65+ and neighborhood-level characteristics: poverty, poor housing conditions, lower rates of access to air-conditioning, impervious land cover, surface temperatures aggregated to the area-level, and seniors' hypertension. Percent Black/African American and household poverty were strong negative predictors of seniors' air conditioning access in multivariate regression analysis.
Subject:
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Aged
Article
Databases, Factual
Female
Health Status Disparities
Heat Exhaustion
Humans
Male
Models, Statistical
Mortality
Vulnerable Populations

Source:
Health Place. 2014; 30:45-60.
Pubmed ID:
25199872
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4348023
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
P30 ES009089/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; U36 CD300430/CD/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
P30 ES009089/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; U36 CD300430/CD/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
New York City, NY
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:3b72c76acdadcc32bf1cb9bb597a985f01fcaf981d0311ffca27f3f8dde77d17
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