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Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties
OBJECTIVE: Poor housing conditions have been linked with worse health outcomes and infectious disease spread. Since the relationship of poor housing conditions with incidence and mortality of COVID-19 is unknown, we investigated the association between poor housing condition and COVID-19 incidence a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33137155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241327 |
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author | Ahmad, Khansa Erqou, Sebhat Shah, Nishant Nazir, Umair Morrison, Alan R. Choudhary, Gaurav Wu, Wen-Chih |
author_facet | Ahmad, Khansa Erqou, Sebhat Shah, Nishant Nazir, Umair Morrison, Alan R. Choudhary, Gaurav Wu, Wen-Chih |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Poor housing conditions have been linked with worse health outcomes and infectious disease spread. Since the relationship of poor housing conditions with incidence and mortality of COVID-19 is unknown, we investigated the association between poor housing condition and COVID-19 incidence and mortality in US counties. METHODS: We conducted cross-sectional analysis of county-level data from the US Centers for Disease Control, US Census Bureau and John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center for 3135 US counties. The exposure of interest was percentage of households with poor housing conditions (one or greater of: overcrowding, high housing cost, incomplete kitchen facilities, or incomplete plumbing facilities). Outcomes were incidence rate ratios (IRR) and mortality rate ratios (MRR) of COVID-19 across US counties through 4/21/2020. Multilevel generalized linear modeling (with total population of each county as a denominator) was utilized to estimate relative risk of incidence and mortality related to poor housing conditions with adjustment for population density and county characteristics including demographics, income, education, prevalence of medical comorbidities, access to healthcare insurance and emergency rooms, and state-level COVID-19 test density. We report incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and mortality ratios (MRRs) for a 5% increase in prevalence in households with poor housing conditions. RESULTS: Across 3135 US counties, the mean percentage of households with poor housing conditions was 14.2% (range 2.7% to 60.2%). On April 21(st), the mean (SD) number of cases and deaths of COVID-19 were 255.68 (2877.03) cases and 13.90 (272.22) deaths per county, respectively. In the adjusted models standardized by county population, with each 5% increase in percent households with poor housing conditions, there was a 50% higher risk of COVID-19 incidence (IRR 1.50, 95% CI: 1.38–1.62) and a 42% higher risk of COVID-19 mortality (MRR 1.42, 95% CI: 1.25–1.61). Results remained similar using earlier timepoints (3/31/2020 and 4/10/2020). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Counties with a higher percentage of households with poor housing had higher incidence of, and mortality associated with, COVID-19. These findings suggest targeted health policies to support individuals living in poor housing conditions should be considered in further efforts to mitigate adverse outcomes associated with COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-76056962020-11-05 Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties Ahmad, Khansa Erqou, Sebhat Shah, Nishant Nazir, Umair Morrison, Alan R. Choudhary, Gaurav Wu, Wen-Chih PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: Poor housing conditions have been linked with worse health outcomes and infectious disease spread. Since the relationship of poor housing conditions with incidence and mortality of COVID-19 is unknown, we investigated the association between poor housing condition and COVID-19 incidence and mortality in US counties. METHODS: We conducted cross-sectional analysis of county-level data from the US Centers for Disease Control, US Census Bureau and John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center for 3135 US counties. The exposure of interest was percentage of households with poor housing conditions (one or greater of: overcrowding, high housing cost, incomplete kitchen facilities, or incomplete plumbing facilities). Outcomes were incidence rate ratios (IRR) and mortality rate ratios (MRR) of COVID-19 across US counties through 4/21/2020. Multilevel generalized linear modeling (with total population of each county as a denominator) was utilized to estimate relative risk of incidence and mortality related to poor housing conditions with adjustment for population density and county characteristics including demographics, income, education, prevalence of medical comorbidities, access to healthcare insurance and emergency rooms, and state-level COVID-19 test density. We report incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and mortality ratios (MRRs) for a 5% increase in prevalence in households with poor housing conditions. RESULTS: Across 3135 US counties, the mean percentage of households with poor housing conditions was 14.2% (range 2.7% to 60.2%). On April 21(st), the mean (SD) number of cases and deaths of COVID-19 were 255.68 (2877.03) cases and 13.90 (272.22) deaths per county, respectively. In the adjusted models standardized by county population, with each 5% increase in percent households with poor housing conditions, there was a 50% higher risk of COVID-19 incidence (IRR 1.50, 95% CI: 1.38–1.62) and a 42% higher risk of COVID-19 mortality (MRR 1.42, 95% CI: 1.25–1.61). Results remained similar using earlier timepoints (3/31/2020 and 4/10/2020). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Counties with a higher percentage of households with poor housing had higher incidence of, and mortality associated with, COVID-19. These findings suggest targeted health policies to support individuals living in poor housing conditions should be considered in further efforts to mitigate adverse outcomes associated with COVID-19. Public Library of Science 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7605696/ /pubmed/33137155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241327 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ahmad, Khansa Erqou, Sebhat Shah, Nishant Nazir, Umair Morrison, Alan R. Choudhary, Gaurav Wu, Wen-Chih Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties |
title | Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties |
title_full | Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties |
title_fullStr | Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties |
title_full_unstemmed | Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties |
title_short | Association of poor housing conditions with COVID-19 incidence and mortality across US counties |
title_sort | association of poor housing conditions with covid-19 incidence and mortality across us counties |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33137155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241327 |
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