Who's at Risk When the Power Goes Out? The At-home Electricity-Dependent Population in the United States, 2012.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Natural and man-made disasters can result in power outages that can affect certain vulnerable populations dependent on electrically powered durable medical equipment. This study estimated the size and prevalence of that electricity-dependent population residing at home in the United States.

Methods

We used the Truven Health MarketScan 2012 database to estimate the number of employer-sponsored privately insured enrollees by geography, age group, and sex who resided at home and were dependent upon electrically powered durable medical equipment to sustain life. We estimated nationally representative prevalence and used US Census population estimates to extrapolate the national population and produce maps visualizing prevalence and distribution of electricity-dependen

SUBMITTER: Molinari NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5007208 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar/Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature