- Title Information
- Title
- An Overlooked Crisis: Temperature-Related Mortality Among Incarcerated Populations in the United States
- Type of Resource (primo)
- dissertations
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Skarha, Julianne
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Savitz, David
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Advisor
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Rich, Josiah
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Dosa, David
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Zanobetti, Antonella
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Department of Epidemiology
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- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 8, 55 p.
- digitalOrigin
- born digital
- Note:
thesis
- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2022
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- Many of the subpopulations most vulnerable to temperature-related mortality are in prisons, facilities that may exacerbate temperature exposures. Yet, there is scare literature on temperature-related mortality among incarcerated populations. I analyzed data on mortality in U.S. state and private prisons from 2001 - 2019 linked to daily temperature data. Using a case-crossover approach with distributed non-linear lag model, I estimated the association of temperatures with total and cause-specific mortality. Both continuous and extreme temperature (hot and cold) were associated with increased total and cause-specific mortality. Characteristics like age at death, length of time incarcerated, prison facility region, and year prison built significantly modified the association between temperature exposure and mortality. Finally, I found air conditioning to have a protective effect among prisons in Texas. Compared to other studies across the United States on temperatures associated with increased mortality, we generally found higher effect estimates among this incarcerated population. These findings suggest that this vulnerable population’s risk has largely been overlooked.
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00914091")
- Topic
- Epidemiology
- Subject
- Topic
- environment
- Subject
- Topic
- Incarcerated Health
- Language
- Language Term (ISO639-2B)
- English
- Record Information
- Record Content Source (marcorg)
- RPB
- Record Creation Date
(encoding="iso8601")
- 20220706