A multivariate analysis of CalEnviroScreen: comparing environmental and socioeconomic stressors versus chronic disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The health-risk assessment paradigm is shifting from single stressor evaluation towards cumulative assessments of multiple stressors. Recent efforts to develop broad-scale public health hazard datasets provide an opportunity to develop and evaluate multiple exposure hazards in combination.

Methods

We performed a multivariate study of the spatial relationship between 12 indicators of environmental hazard, 5 indicators of socioeconomic hardship, and 3 health outcomes. Indicators were obtained from CalEnviroScreen (version 3.0), a publicly available environmental justice screening tool developed by the State of California Environmental Protection Agency. The indicators were compared to the total rate of hospitalization for 14 ICD-9 disease categories (a measure of di

SUBMITTER: Greenfield BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729424 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature