Income, Housing, and Fire Injuries: A Census Tract Analysis

Shai, Donna

doi:10.1177/003335490612100208

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“…In line with previous studies [20,28], this research found a strong relationship between the condition of a dwelling and the rate of fires. When the internal state of a building was viewed as being either clean or tidy, and/or the external condition of a building was in good overall condition, hosts were more likely to have survived than died in accidental residential fires.…”

Section: Ses and Physical Aspects Of A Dwellingsupporting

confidence: 92%

Comparative investigation of ‘survival’ and fatality factors in accidental residential fires

Xiong

Bruck

Ball

2015

Fire Safety Journal

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Section: Ses and Physical Aspects Of A Dwellingsupporting

confidence: 92%

Comparative investigation of ‘survival’ and fatality factors in accidental residential fires

Xiong

Bruck

Ball

2015

Fire Safety Journal

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“…Fire prevention strategies (Shai, 2006;Parmer et al, 2006) have played an increasing part in efforts reduce fire incidence in many countries. Crawford (2005) commented that continual reassessment and adjustment of fire prevention activities is necessary in order to attempt to provide a long term solution for reducing fire deaths, injuries and property damage.…”

Section: Fire Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolution of geographical information systems for fire prevention support

Higgins

Taylor

Francis

et al. 2014

Fire Safety Journal

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Geographical information systems (GIS) provide visual map based analysis and reporting of information implemented in map layers. Geographical information systems evolve by incorporating new and enhanced means of analyzing and presenting location based information. In this paper we examine the evolution of a geographical information system for fire prevention support that evolved through transitions of the underlying approach to analysis of dwelling fire risk over a six year period 2007 to 2013. The novel theoretical contribution of this paper is the examination of the evolution of GIS analysis and modelling approaches, and in the specific context of fire and rescue services, the examination of the evolution of a fire prevention support GIS.

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“…As a result of their high "energy burden," low-income households face more utility-related shut-offs and extreme home temperatures, which increase respiratory illness, bronchitis, pneumonia, and even deaths (Hernández, 2008). Low-income households also rely more on antiquated appliances that threaten home safety and increase fire risk (Shai, 2006). Children living in households that experience a high-energy burden are especially at risk for burns from secondary heating sources and carbon monoxide poisoning (Bhattacharya, 2003;Child Health Impact Working Group, 2007;Granade et al, 2009).…”

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Effects of simplifying outreach materials for energy conservation programs that target low-income consumers

2013

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We thank Jack Wang, Barbara Bugosh and Denise Caruso for their help in conducting this research. 2 ABSTRACTCritics have speculated that the limited success of energy conservation programs among low-income consumers may partly be due to recipients having insufficient literacy to understand the outreach materials. Indeed, we found outreach materials for low-income consumers to require relatively high levels of reading comprehension. We therefore improved the FleschKincaid readability statistics for two outreach brochures, by using shorter words and shorter sentences to describe their content. We examined the effect of that simplification on low-income consumers' responses. Participants from low-income communities in the greater Pittsburgh area, who varied in literacy, were randomly assigned to either original communications about energy conservation programs or our simplified versions. Our findings suggest that lowering readability statistics successfully simplified only the more straightforward brochure in our set of two, likely because its content lent itself better to simplification. Findings for this brochure showed that simplification improved understanding of its content among both low-literacy and high-literacy recipients, without adversely affecting their evaluation of the materials, or their intention to enroll in the advertised programs. We discuss strategies for improving communication materials that aim to reach out to low-income populations.Keywords: Readability; Consumer Outreach; Energy Conservation 3 RESEARCH HIGLIGHTS Brochures about energy programs for low-income consumers can be too hard to read. We made brochures easier to read by using shorter words and shorter sentences. Simplifying a straightforward brochure improved the understanding of all recipients. However, simplifying a complex brochure had no effect on understanding. We suggest strategies for improving outreach to low-income consumers.

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Income, Housing, and Fire Injuries: A Census Tract Analysis

Cited by 75 publications

References 18 publications

Comparative investigation of ‘survival’ and fatality factors in accidental residential fires

Comparative investigation of ‘survival’ and fatality factors in accidental residential fires

The evolution of geographical information systems for fire prevention support

Effects of simplifying outreach materials for energy conservation programs that target low-income consumers

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