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  • Lead exposure remains a significant public health concern, particularly for children.
  • Identifying lead exposure risk hotspots is crucial for effective public health interventions.
  • Existing methods for identifying lead exposure hotspots often lack consistent, nationwide data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To adapt and apply geospatial statistical methods to identify U.S. lead exposure risk hotspots.
  • To evaluate the agreement of identified hotspots with existing public health data and children's blood lead levels.
  • To pinpoint states and counties with the highest potential lead exposure risk for targeted interventions.

Main Methods:

  • Expanded geospatial statistical methods from a Michigan case study.
  • Utilized five lead indices based on housing age and sociodemographic data.
  • Applied geospatial cluster analysis and percentile methods to identify U.S. census tracts at risk.

Main Results:

  • Identified hotspots showed moderate-to-substantial agreement with state-identified high-risk locations and children's blood lead data.
  • Geospatial analysis identified 8% to 41% of U.S. census tracts as potential lead exposure risk areas.
  • Highlighted states including Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, and Texas as having high potential risk.

Conclusions:

  • Lead indices can serve as effective surrogates for identifying lead exposure risk in the absence of complete blood lead level data.
  • The findings support the use of these screening results to inform targeted lead-abatement actions.
  • Further ground-truthing with local knowledge and environmental data is recommended to refine hotspot identification and intervention strategies.