Federal Housing Assistance and Blood Lead Levels in a Nationally Representative US Sample Age 6 and Older: NHANES, 1999-2018.

Journal

Environmental health perspectives
ISSN: 1552-9924
Titre abrégé: Environ Health Perspect
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0330411

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2024
Historique:
medline: 13 3 2024
pubmed: 13 3 2024
entrez: 13 3 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Federal housing assistance is an important policy tool to ensure housing security for low-income households. Less is known about its impact on residential environmental exposures, particularly lead. We conducted a quasi-experimental study to investigate the association between federal housing assistance and blood lead levels (BLLs) in a nationally representative US sample age 6 y and older eligible for housing assistance. We used the 1999-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) linked with US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administrative records to assess BLLs of NHANES participants with concurrent HUD housing assistance (i.e., current recipients, Current HUD recipients had a significantly lower LSGM [ Our research underscores the importance of social-structural determinants like federal housing assistance in providing affordable, stable, and healthy housing to very low-income households. More attention is needed to ensure housing quality and racial equity across HUD's three major housing assistance programs. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12645.

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BACKGROUND UNASSIGNED
Federal housing assistance is an important policy tool to ensure housing security for low-income households. Less is known about its impact on residential environmental exposures, particularly lead.
OBJECTIVES UNASSIGNED
We conducted a quasi-experimental study to investigate the association between federal housing assistance and blood lead levels (BLLs) in a nationally representative US sample age 6 y and older eligible for housing assistance.
METHODS UNASSIGNED
We used the 1999-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) linked with US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administrative records to assess BLLs of NHANES participants with concurrent HUD housing assistance (i.e., current recipients,
RESULTS UNASSIGNED
Current HUD recipients had a significantly lower LSGM [
DISCUSSION UNASSIGNED
Our research underscores the importance of social-structural determinants like federal housing assistance in providing affordable, stable, and healthy housing to very low-income households. More attention is needed to ensure housing quality and racial equity across HUD's three major housing assistance programs. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12645.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1289/EHP12645 PMID: 38477610
pubmed: 38477610
doi: 10.1289/EHP12645
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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37004

Auteurs

MyDzung T Chu (MT)

Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1678-0123

Andrew Fenelon (A)

Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Gary Adamkiewicz (G)

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Ami R Zota (AR)

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.

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