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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exposures and Long-term Self-rated Health Effects Among Parents in Coastal Louisiana
Samuel Stroope1, Tim Slack1, Rhiannon A Kroeger1
1Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Purpose:
To assess whether exposure to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DHOS) was related to parents' self-rated health over time.
Design:
3 waves of panel data were drawn from the Gulf Coast Population Impact study (2014) and Resilient Children, Youth, and Communities study (2016, 2018).
Setting:
Coastal Louisiana communities in high-impact DHOS areas.
Participants:
Respondents were parents or guardians aged 18 - 84, culled from a probability sample of households with a child aged 4 to 18 (N = 526) at the time of the 2010 DHOS.
Measures:
Self-rated health was measured at each wave. Self-reported physical exposure to the DHOS, economic exposure to the DHOS, and control variables were measured in 2014.
Analysis:
We used econometric random effects regression for panel data to assess relationships between DHOS exposures and self-rated health over time, controlling for potentially confounding covariates.
Results:
Both physical exposure (b = -0.39; P < 0.001) and economic exposure (b = -0.34; P < 0.001) to the DHOS had negative associations with self-rated health over the study period. Physical exposure had a larger effect size.
Conclusion:
Parents' physical contact with, and economic disruption from, the 2010 DHOS were tied to long-term diminished health.
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