Associations between flood risk and US Census tract-level health outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Human-induced climate change has led to more frequent and severe flooding around the globe. We examined the association between flood risk and the prevalence of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, asthma, and poor mental health in the United States, while taking into account different levels of social vulnerability. We aggregated flood risk variables from First Street Foundation data by census tract and used principal component analysis to derive a set of 5 interpretable flood risk factors. The dependent variables were census-tract level disease prevalences generated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bayesian spatial conditional autoregressive models were fit on these data to quantify the relationship between flood risk and health outcomes under different stratifi

SUBMITTER: Sheng A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11458197 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature