Evaluating Changes in Health Risk from Drought over the Contiguous United States.

ABSTRACT: The outcomes of drought can be difficult to assess due to the complexity of its effects. While most risk assessments of drought are developed for agriculture or water resources, the associations with human health are not well studied due to unclear and complex pathways. This study is the first to assess potential changes in health risk from droughts during the last decade in the contiguous United States. To assess the risk, we spatially superimposed vulnerability variables associated with drought on historical drought exposure over the last decade. Different variations in Local Moran's I statistics were used to assess the spatial distribution of health vulnerability, risk of drought, and changes in the two five-year study periods (2010-2014 and 2015-2019). Our results show large clusters o

SUBMITTER: Jalalzadeh Fard B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9031499 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature