Socioeconomic Disparities and Influenza Hospitalizations, Tennessee, USA

Autor: Rameela Chandrasekhar, Mary Lou Lindegren, Chantel D. Sloan, Edward F. Mitchel, William Schaffner
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Male
Epidemiology
health care disparities
lcsh:Medicine
Communicable Diseases
Emerging
minority health
Patient Admission
Medicine
Young adult
Child
education.field_of_study
Relative index of inequality
Incidence (epidemiology)
Incidence
Process Assessment
Health Care
1. No poverty
Middle Aged
Tennessee
3. Good health
Socioeconomic Disparities and Influenza Hospitalizations
Tennessee
USA
Infectious Diseases
Child
Preschool
Female
influenza
Emerging Infections Program (EIP)
Microbiology (medical)
Adult
Adolescent
spatial analysis
Population
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Young Adult
Census Bureau
Emerging infections
Environmental health
Influenza
Human
Health insurance
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
Healthcare Disparities
education
Socioeconomic status
Aged
Poverty
business.industry
Research
lcsh:R
United States
Socioeconomic Factors
business
Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 9, Pp 1602-1610 (2015)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: High rates of poverty, low education, and female single-parent households are associated with these hospitalizations.
We examined population-based surveillance data from the Tennessee Emerging Infections Program to determine whether neighborhood socioeconomic status was associated with influenza hospitalization rates. Hospitalization data collected during October 2007–April 2014 were geocoded (N = 1,743) and linked to neighborhood socioeconomic data. We calculated age-standardized annual incidence rates, relative index of inequality, and concentration curves for socioeconomic variables. Influenza hospitalizations increased with increased percentages of persons who lived in poverty, had female-headed households, lived in crowded households, and lived in population-dense areas. Influenza hospitalizations decreased with increased percentages of persons who were college educated, were employed, and had health insurance. Higher incidence of influenza hospitalization was also associated with lower neighborhood socioeconomic status when data were stratified by race.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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