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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exposures and Long-term Self-rated Health Effects Among Parents in Coastal Louisiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Samuel Stroope ,
Tim Slack ,
Rhiannon A. Kroeger ,
Kathryn Sweet Keating ,
Jaishree Beedasy ,
Jonathan J. Sury ,
Jeremy Brooks  and
Thomas Chandler
Samuel Stroope*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Tim Slack
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Rhiannon A. Kroeger
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Kathryn Sweet Keating
Affiliation:
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, New Orleans, LA, USA
Jaishree Beedasy
Affiliation:
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jonathan J. Sury
Affiliation:
Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, USA
Jeremy Brooks
Affiliation:
Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, USA
Thomas Chandler
Affiliation:
Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, USA
*
Corresponding author: Samuel Stroope, Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

parentsdeepwater horizonoil spillpublic healthLouisiana
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e329
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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