The rates of cold injuries among people without housing in Alaska also steadily rose from 2012 through 2021.
A homeless camp in a wooded area of Mountain View consists of several tents and makeshift shelters in the snow snow on Dec. 21, 2022. from Alaska’s Department of Health showed that unhoused people saw significantly higher odds of getting serious cold exposure injuries — frostbite and hypothermia — than people who had housing in recent years, the report found. And the rates of such injuries among unhoused Alaskans steadily increased.
Epidemiologists found that Alaska’s homeless population had 8.3 times the odds of a cold exposure injury compared to people with housing.The rates of cold injuries among people without housing also steadily rose during the 10-year span. The highest rate occurred in the most recent year in the report, 2021, at about 25 per 100 hospitalizations for injuries.
“But outside of those years, in between those years, from 2013 to 2019 we still see that that rate generally increasing,” Fitting said. And there isn’t such an apparent trend for injuries among housed residents, he said. Mindlin added that, in his anecdotal experience, hypothermia is usually more associated with outdoor recreation and unexpected circumstances, like someone becoming injured while out in the backcountry.
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