Assessing United States County-Level Exposure for Research on Tropical Cyclones and Human Health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tropical cyclone epidemiology can be advanced through exposure assessment methods that are comprehensive and consistent across space and time, as these facilitate multiyear, multistorm studies. Further, an understanding of patterns in and between exposure metrics that are based on specific hazards of the storm can help in designing tropical cyclone epidemiological research.

Objectives

a) Provide an open-source data set for tropical cyclone exposure assessment for epidemiological research; and b) investigate patterns and agreement between county-level assessments of tropical cyclone exposure based on different storm hazards.

Methods

We created an open-source data set with data at the county level on exposure to four tropical cyclone hazards: pe

SUBMITTER: Anderson GB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592507 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature