Table 2.
Healthcare Providers’ Specialties and Percentages Who Reported Talking With At-risk Patient Groups About Limiting Their Exposure to Air Pollution
| Characteristics | Total sample, n (%)a | Ever talk to Patients about limiting air pollution exposure, n (%)b | At-risk patient groups that
health professionals reported talking to about limiting air pollution
exposure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with respiratory disease, n (%)b | Patients with cardiovascular disease, n (%)b | Patients aged ≤18 years, n (%)b | Patients aged ≥65 years, n (%)b | Pregnantwomen, n (%)b | ||||
| Total | 1,751 (100) | 714 (40.8) | 603 (34.4) | 279 (15.9) | 200 (11.4) | 215 (12.3) | 226 (12.9) | |
| Specialty | ||||||||
| Family medicine | 465 (26.6) | 235 (50.5) | 199 (42.8) | 107 (23.0) | 54 (11.6) | 89 (19.1) | 95 (20.4) | |
| Internal medicine | 535 (30.6) | 233 (43.6) | 192 (35.9) | 100 (18.7) | 44 (8.2) | 82 (15.3) | 75 (14.0) | |
| Pediatrics | 250 (14.3) | 139 (55.6) | 132 (52.8) | 36 (14.4) | 76 (30.4) | 10 (4.0) | 30 (12.0) | |
| Obstetrics/gynecology | 250 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Nurse practitioner | 251 (14.3) | 107 (42.6) | 80 (31.9) | 36 (14.3) | 26 (10.4) | 34 (13.5) | 26 (10.4) | |
a
Column percentages.
b
Row percentages.