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Use of geographic indicators of healthcare, environment and socioeconomic factors to characterize environmental health disparities
- Source :
- Environmental Health, Environmental Health, BioMed Central, 2016, 15 (1), pp.79. ⟨10.1186/s12940-016-0163-7⟩, Environmental Health, 2016, 15 (1), pp.79. ⟨10.1186/s12940-016-0163-7⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2016.
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Abstract
- International audience; Background: An environmental health inequality is a major public health concern in Europe. However just few studies take into account a large set of characteristics to analyze this problematic. The aim of this study was to identify and describe how socioeconomic, health accessibility and exposure factors accumulate and interact in small areas in a French urban context, to assess environmental health inequalities related to infant and neonatal mortality.Methods: Environmental indicators on deprivation index, proximity to high-traffic roads, green space, and healthcare accessibility were created using the Geographical Information System. Cases were collected from death certificates in the city hall of each municipality in the Nice metropolitan area. Using the parental addresses, cases were geocoded to their census block of residence. A classification using a Multiple Component Analysis following by a Hierarchical Clustering allow us to characterize the census blocks in terms of level of socioeconomic, environmental and accessibility to healthcare, which are very diverse definition by nature. Relation between infant and neonatal mortality rate and the three environmental patterns which categorize the census blocks after the classification was performed using a standard Poisson regression model for count data after checking the assumption of dispersion.Results: Based on geographic indicators, three environmental patterns were identified. We found environmental inequalities and social health inequalities in Nice metropolitan area. Moreover these inequalities are counterbalance by the close proximity of deprived census blocks to healthcare facilities related to mother and newborn. So therefore we demonstrate no environmental health inequalities related to infant and neonatal mortality.Conclusion: Examination of patterns of social, environmental and in relation with healthcare access is useful to identify census blocks with needs and their effects on health. Similar analyzes could be implemented and considered in other cities or related to other birth outcomes.
- Subjects :
- neonatal mortality
spatial analysis
• Environmental exposures
• Socioeconomic
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
[SHS.GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography
Air pollution
Environment
Infant mortality
Generalized additive models
Health Services Accessibility
fine geographic scale
• Deprivation
Spatial-temporal analysis
spatial modeling
neighbourhood deprivation
Humans
residential mobility
Cities
Social determinants
Healthcare accessibility
Environmental inequalities
Health inequalities
long-term
Research
Environmental health inequalities
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infant, Newborn
• Congenital abnormalities
Infant
neighborhood deprivation
Health Status Disparities
[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography
GIS
environmental nuisances
• Air pollution
ESRD incidence
Socioeconomic Factors
GIS & Spatial Analyses
fine spatial scale
[SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies
Female
France
cumulative exposure assessment
Environmental Health
cluster analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1476069X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Health, Environmental Health, BioMed Central, 2016, 15 (1), pp.79. ⟨10.1186/s12940-016-0163-7⟩, Environmental Health, 2016, 15 (1), pp.79. ⟨10.1186/s12940-016-0163-7⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....438f6332e8e73f083d41783b37768354