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Trends in Routine Checkup Within the Past Year Following a Hurricane
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Trends in Routine Checkup Within the Past Year Following a Hurricane

Jim P. Stimpson, Damaris Lopez Mercado, Alexandra C. Rivera-González and Alexander N. Ortega
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, v 17
21 Jul 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2023.93
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Abstract

Research Letters
The goal of this nationally representative, cross-sectional study is to evaluate the trends in routine checkup within the last year associated with exposure to a hurricane. We compared Puerto Rico (2017 Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria), Texas (2017 Hurricane Harvey), and Florida (2017 Hurricane Irma, Hurricane 2018 Michael) with states that had a category 1-2 hurricane make landfall from 2014 to 2019: Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. We found that states impacted by a major hurricane in 2017 had a drop in routine checkup while the states that experienced a category 1-2 landfall did have a change in that year. By the following year, all states reported an increase in routine checkup suggesting that the disruption in routine care was temporary.

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