Trends in Routine Checkup Within the Past Year Following a Hurricane.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/trends-in-routine-checkup-within-the-past-year-following-a-hurricane/79E15EDE0EC9CE010A0804BBC41A3839Abstract
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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