Table 4.
Estimated Health‐Related Costs of 2012 Climate‐Sensitive Case Studies (Millions of 2018 Dollars)
| (A) State | (B) Case study | (C) Mortality costs | (D) Morbidity costs (HAs) | (E) Morbidity costs (EDs) | (F) Other health‐related costs (Outpatient, home health care, medications) | (G) Lost wages (HAs and EDs) |
(H) Total health‐related costs (Sensitivity range) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Millions of 2018 dollars) | |||||||
| Michigan | Lyme disease | $0 | $4.5 | $0.3 | $3.0 | $0.1 | $8.0 |
| ($7.9–9.7) | |||||||
| North Carolina | Allergenic oak pollen | $36.5 | $4.3 | $0.6 | $0.9 | $0.7 | $43.0 |
| ($13.6–107.1) | |||||||
| Ohio | Extreme weather | $73.0 | $0.9 | $8.6 | $0.1 | $0.2 | $82.8 |
| ($21.8–208.8) | |||||||
| Wisconsin | Extreme heat | $246.4 | $1.3 | $3.1 | $0.5 | $0.6 | $251.8 |
| ($33.6–664.4) | |||||||
| Florida | Harmful algal blooms | $0 | $398.8 | $146.3 | $0.9 | $11.0 | $557.0 |
| ($236.7–557.0) | |||||||
| Nevada | Ozone air pollution | $886.9 | $4.6 | $4.6 | $1.6 | $0.2 | $897.9 |
| ($105.6–2,376.7) | |||||||
| Texas | West Nile virus | $812.1 | $91.0 | $151.9 | $31.4 | $4.9 | $1,091.3 |
| ($368.6–2,448.2) | |||||||
| Colorado | Wildfires | $1,587.2 | $5.6 | $16.9 | $0.0 | $0.9 | $1,610.5 |
| ($205.2–4,269.7) | |||||||
| Washington | Wildfires | $2,234.9 | $11.2 | $43.4 | $0.0 | $1.4 | $2,290.9 |
| ($311.9–6,035.0) | |||||||
| New Jersey | Hurricane Sandy | $2,490.9* | $439.5 | $80.2 | $17.8 | $6.2 | $3,145.8 |
| New York | $49.5 | $57.2 | $2.5 | $1.9 | ($1,431.3–7,922.4) | ||
| Total | $8,367.7 | $1,011.3 | $513.2 | $58.7 | $28.0 | $9,979.0 | |
| ($2,736.3–24,599.0) | |||||||
Note. Column H (total health‐related costs) equals sum of columns C‐G. Column H (sensitivity range) corresponds to sensitivity analysis (see supporting information Table S2). *Combined Hurricane Sandy mortality estimate for New Jersey and New York also includes deaths reported from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland, and those not classified by state (Diakakis et al., 2015). Row and column totals may not equal component sums due to rounding.