University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL, USA.
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Health Soc Care Community. 2021 May;29(3):867-875. doi: 10.1111/hsc.13312. Epub 2021 Feb 2.
Eviction of renter-occupied homes is an emerging public health crisis adversely impacting populations already at risk. Although housing quality and home-owner foreclosures have been linked to health outcomes, the relationship between eviction of renter-occupied homes and health has not been well established. The demographics and socioeconomic status of renters differs from homeowners, as such any relationship with health outcomes should be distinguished between the two. The aim of this study is to provide a descriptive analysis of the relationship between renter-specific eviction and unhealthy behaviours at the census tract level. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 500 Cities Project, the Eviction Lab and the U.S. Census Bureau, this study assesses the relationship between eviction rates and health indicators for 1,267 urban census tracts in Illinois in 2016. Binge drinking, current smoking, no leisure-time physical activity, obesity and sleeping <7 hr were used as indicators of unhealthy behaviour as categorised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention500 Cities Project. Unadjusted and adjusted linear regression models were used to assess and describe the relationship between each of the dependent variables and each of the independent variables. All five of the unhealthy behaviour indicators were found to be significantly associated with eviction rates and eviction filing rates after adjustment for confounding variables. This study contributes to the understudied area of research focused on how eviction rates contribute to the social determinants of health for already at-risk populations.
租客居住房屋被驱逐是一个新兴的公共卫生危机，对已经处于风险之中的人群产生了不利影响。尽管住房质量和房主丧失抵押品赎回权与健康结果有关，但租客居住房屋被驱逐与健康之间的关系尚未得到充分确立。租客的人口统计学和社会经济地位与房主不同，因此，任何与健康结果的关系都应该在两者之间加以区分。本研究的目的是在人口普查地段层面上提供租客特定驱逐与不健康行为之间关系的描述性分析。本研究利用疾病控制与预防中心 500 个城市项目、驱逐实验室和美国人口普查局的数据，评估了 2016 年伊利诺伊州 1267 个城市人口普查地段的驱逐率与健康指标之间的关系。 binge drinking（狂饮）、current smoking（当前吸烟）、no leisure-time physical activity（没有闲暇时间体育活动）、obesity（肥胖）和 sleeping <7 hr（睡眠<7 小时）被用作疾病控制与预防中心 500 个城市项目分类的不健康行为的指标。未调整和调整后的线性回归模型用于评估和描述每个因变量与每个自变量之间的关系。在调整混杂变量后，所有五个不健康行为指标都被发现与驱逐率和驱逐申请率显著相关。本研究为研究重点关注驱逐率如何影响已经处于风险之中的人群的健康社会决定因素的这一研究领域做出了贡献。
