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Do Power Outages Impact Mental Health? Empirical evidence from Maryland.

Meng Feng, Yueming Lucy Qiu, Jie Chen, Jiehong Lou, Yi David Wang

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Meng FengSchool of Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA.
Yueming Lucy QiuSchool of Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9233-4996
Jie ChenSchool of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA..
Jiehong LouSchool of Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4606-7756
Yi David WangDepartment of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.

Funding

The impact of hospital-based health information technology on health care quality and equity among patients with ADRDRF1AG083175 · NIA · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI CHEN, JIE · 2023 to 2023
$1.9M
Effect of Hospital and Community Care Coordination on Health Care Quality and Equity among Individuals with Risk Factors or Diagnosis of ADRDR01AG062315 · NIA · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI CHEN, JIE · 2021 to 2023
$1.5M
Program Development (Pilot) Core (Core B)P30AG097158 · NIA · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI Jie Chen, Rozalina Grubina McCoy · 2025 to 2026
$1.3M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG097158NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062315NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG083175
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Power outages are becoming more frequent in the United States, yet their mental health consequences remain under-identified in clinical data. Maryland is a particularly relevant setting given its mental health service utilization rate of 42.2 per 1,000 population-nearly twice the national average-and its aging grid infrastructure under increasing climate stress. We combine high-frequency power outage records (15-minute intervals) with administrative inpatient claims from the Maryland Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Database to estimate how outages affect mental-health-related hospitalizations from 2018 to 2023. In the baseline, we define severe outage exposure as the count of episodes exceeding the 75

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