2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/25/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | IDENTIFYING LINKS BETWEEN HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: A MACROECOLOGICAL APPROACH | Virtual Platform
IDENTIFYING LINKS BETWEEN HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: A MACROECOLOGICAL APPROACH
Pollution or physical degradation of streams and rivers, and their local and upstream landscape features, can present a host of risks to human health. Yet, the consequences of environmental degradation are rarely considered in research on human well-being, particularly at regional to national scales. The objective of this study is to compare an array of stream health metrics with spatially congruent human health metrics throughout the conterminous United States (CONUS). Stream health metrics were obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Stream-Catchment (StreamCat) dataset. StreamCat includes natural and anthropogenic watershed characteristics for 2.65 million stream and river segments within the CONUS. Human health metrics were obtained from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) database. We focused exclusively on age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) for all counties within the CONUS between 1999-2017. Random forest models were used to identify important stream health metrics for predicting county-level AAMR. In future research, we will use statistical models to explore potential causal pathways between human health and the environment.
- Models
- Anthropogenic
- Socio-ecology
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Felisha Walls
(), Virginia Commonwealth University, wallsfn@mymail.vcu.edu;
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Daniel McGarvey
(), Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, djmcgarvey@vcu.edu;
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