
Association Between Ambient Heat and Risk of Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health Among US Adults, 2010 to 2019
JAMA Psychiatry Author Interviews
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Climate Hazards at a Large Scale
The optum labs data warehouse provides de identified health care information on hundreds of millions of individuals across the country that are either participating in commercial health insur s or in meticare advantage health plans. And it really enabled us to study the impact of climate related hazards on people's health, really at a nearly unprecedented scale. For example, for this study, we used health care claims data from more than 21 million individuals in order to identify the three point five million visits to emergency arments around the country related to mental health. That certainly is a large amount of data. Ad gregg helped us understand what the octen flab data warehouse is, where the medical claims data is coming from. Got
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