Health Impacts of Citywide and Localized Power Outages in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies investigated potential health effects of large-scale power outages, including the massive power failure that affected the northeastern United States and Ontario, Canada, in August 2003, and outages associated with major storms. However, information on localized outages is limited.

Objective

The study sought to examine potential health impacts of citywide and localized outages in New York City (NYC).

Methods

Along with the citywide 2003 outage, localized outages in July 1999 and July 2006 were identified. We additionally investigated localized, warm- and cold-weather outages that occurred in any of 66 NYC electric-grid networks during 2002–2014 using New York State Public Service Commission data. Mortality and hospitalizations were geocoded

SUBMITTER: Dominianni C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084843 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature