Use of a population-based survey to describe the health of Boston public housing residents
Use of a population-based survey to describe the health of Boston public housing residents
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DOI：
10.2105/ajph.2006.094912
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
Horsburgh, C. Robert
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作者：
Digenis-Bury, Eleni C.;Brooks, Daniel R.;Horsburgh, C. Robert
目标.我们通过随机数字拨号调查比较了公共住房居民与其他波士顿居民的健康状况。我们使用2001年和2003年收集的波士顿行为危险因素监测系统的数据，对公共住房居民和其他城市居民的健康状况、获得和利用以及健康行为进行粗略的和人口统计学调整的比较。公共住房居民更有可能报告一般或较差的整体健康状况，曾被诊断为高血压，目前哮喘，曾被诊断为糖尿病，肥胖，残疾，失去6颗或更多牙齿，以及在过去一个月内抑郁15天或以上。公共住房居民比其他人更有可能没有医疗保险或报告医疗保健的财务障碍。公共住房居民报告更多的吸烟和缺乏体育活动，减少过去一个月的酗酒和过去一年的大麻使用，和类似的水平的终身药物使用。公共住房居民的健康状况比其他城市居民差得多，但在各种条件下，获得和利用医疗保健的水平相似。公共卫生部门可以利用现有的调查来衡量公共住房居民的健康状况。
Objectives. We compared the health of public housing residents with other Boston residents through a random-digit-dial survey.Methods. We used data from the Boston Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System collected in 2001 and 2003 to make crude and demographically adjusted comparisons between public housing residents and other city residents on measures of health status, access and utilization, and health behaviors.Results. Public housing residents were more likely to report fair or poor overall health status, ever-diagnosed hypertension, current asthma, ever-diagnosed diabetes, obesity, disability, loss of 6 or more teeth, and feelings of depression for 15 days or more in the past month. Public housing residents were slightly more likely than others to be without health insurance or report financial barriers to medical care. Public housing residents reported more smoking and physical inactivity, less past-month binge drinking and past-year marijuana use, and similar levels of lifetime drug use.Conclusions. Public housing residents reported substantially poorer health than did other city residents across a variety of conditions but similar levels of access to and utilization of health care. Public health departments may be able to use established surveys to measure health among public housing residents.