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Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004.

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Grabich, SC; Robinson, WR; Konrad, CE; Horney, JA
Published in: Disaster Med Public Health Prep
August 2017

OBJECTIVE: Prenatal hurricane exposure may be an increasingly important contributor to poor reproductive health outcomes. In the current literature, mixed associations have been suggested between hurricane exposure and reproductive health outcomes. This may be due, in part, to residual confounding. We assessed the association between hurricane exposure and reproductive health outcomes by using a difference-in-difference analysis technique to control for confounding in a cohort of Florida pregnancies. METHODS: We implemented a difference-in-difference analysis to evaluate hurricane weather and reproductive health outcomes including low birth weight, fetal death, and birth rate. The study population for analysis included all Florida pregnancies conceived before or during the 2003 and 2004 hurricane season. Reproductive health data were extracted from vital statistics records from the Florida Department of Health. In 2004, 4 hurricanes (Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne) made landfall in rapid succession; whereas in 2003, no hurricanes made landfall in Florida. RESULTS: Overall models using the difference-in-difference analysis showed no association between exposure to hurricane weather and reproductive health. CONCLUSIONS: The inconsistency of the literature on hurricane exposure and reproductive health may be in part due to biases inherent in pre-post or regression-based county-level comparisons. We found no associations between hurricane exposure and reproductive health. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:407-411).

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Disaster Med Public Health Prep

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EISSN

1938-744X

Publication Date

August 2017

Volume

11

Issue

4

Start / End Page

407 / 411

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
  • Reproductive Health
  • Humans
  • Florida
  • Fetal Mortality
  • Female
  • Disaster Victims
  • Cyclonic Storms
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4203 Health services and systems
 

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Grabich, S. C., Robinson, W. R., Konrad, C. E., & Horney, J. A. (2017). Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004. Disaster Med Public Health Prep, 11(4), 407–411. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2016.158
Grabich, Shannon C., Whitney R. Robinson, Charles E. Konrad, and Jennifer A. Horney. “Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004.Disaster Med Public Health Prep 11, no. 4 (August 2017): 407–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2016.158.
Grabich SC, Robinson WR, Konrad CE, Horney JA. Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2017 Aug;11(4):407–11.
Grabich, Shannon C., et al. “Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004.Disaster Med Public Health Prep, vol. 11, no. 4, Aug. 2017, pp. 407–11. Pubmed, doi:10.1017/dmp.2016.158.
Grabich SC, Robinson WR, Konrad CE, Horney JA. Impact of Hurricane Exposure on Reproductive Health Outcomes, Florida, 2004. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2017 Aug;11(4):407–411.
Journal cover image

Published In

Disaster Med Public Health Prep

DOI

EISSN

1938-744X

Publication Date

August 2017

Volume

11

Issue

4

Start / End Page

407 / 411

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
  • Reproductive Health
  • Humans
  • Florida
  • Fetal Mortality
  • Female
  • Disaster Victims
  • Cyclonic Storms
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4203 Health services and systems