Asthma Clusters for Emergency Department Asthma Visits Ages 5-14 (2011-2018)

Asthma Clusters for Emergency Department Asthma Visits Ages 5-14 (2011-2018)

Cluster detection for asthma emergency department visits ages 5-14 for Arizona, Colorado, and Utah 2011-2018.

Using a purely spatial Poisson scan statistic to look at the geographical distribution of emergency department (ED) visits for asthma in children ages 5-14, several clusters were found to be at increased risk. County-level data were used and models were shown with and without adjusting for covariates. Some counties had limited asthma data. New Mexico asthma data were unavailable.

Sarah Callaway

Asthma and Population Data:
Arizona EPHT Explorer https://gis.azdhs.gov/ephtexplorer/
Colorado Environmental Public Health Tracking https://coepht.colorado.gov/asthma-data
Utah IBIS Public Health Indicator Based Information System https://ibis.health.utah.gov/ibisph-view/indicator/view/AsthED.Cnty.html

Smoking and Poverty Data: U.S. Census Bureau, 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates https://data.census.gov/cedsci/

Heating Fuels Data: U.S. Census Bureau, 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Selected Housing Characteristics https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ACS%20selected%20Housing%20Characteristics%20heating%20fuel&g=0400000US04.050000,08.050000,35.050000,49.050000&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B25040&hidePreview=true

Geographic Data: All state and county geographic information was downloaded into ArcGIS Pro 2.7.1 from U.S. Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html

Website maintained by Chantel Sloan, Associate Professor in the Public Health Department at Brigham Young University

2011-2018

All datasets were publicly available through state public health data portals or the U.S. Census.

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Map file generated using ArcGIS Pro 2.7.1 Cluster detection was conducted with SaTScan v9.6

County-level data is represented for the states of Arizona, Colorado, and Utah for 2011-2018. Application is limited to this geographical area and timeframe.