The historic 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (DHOS) led to public distress regarding potential impacts on children in nearby Gulf Coast communities. Using a community-based South Louisiana panel study of households with children, we examined the effect of fishing industry employment on changes in a subjective measure of general child health and whether economic and physical DHOS exposures played a mediating role. Fishing industry employment had a negative effect on child health compared to other industries. Economic exposure and physical exposure both mediated the effects of the fishing industry on child health, with economic exposure mediating a larger share (49.3%) of the relationship compared to physical exposure (40.5%). The importance of economic oil spill exposure in these findings highlights the significance of social determinants of health at the intersection of disasters and child vulnerability.

具有历史意义的2010年BP深水地平线漏油事件（DHOS）引发了公众对其附近海湾沿岸社区儿童的潜在影响的忧虑。通过对路易斯安那州有孩子的家庭进行的基于社区的小组研究，我们研究了捕鱼业就业对总体儿童健康的主观衡量指标的变化以及经济和自然DHOS暴露是否起中介作用的影响。与其他行业相比，捕鱼业的就业对儿童健康有负面影响。经济接触和身体接触均介导了渔业对儿童健康的影响，与身体接触（40.5％）相比，经济接触在这一关系中所占份额更大（49.3％）。