ACCOUNTING FOR LEVEE OVERTOPPING DURATION: A TEST WITH HURRICANE KATRINA CONDITIONS

When the levee breaks: treating adolescents and families in the aftermath of hurricane katrina.

Hurricane Katrina brought to the surface serious questions about the capacity of the public health system to respond to community-wide disaster. The storm and its aftermath severed developmentally protective family and community ties; thus its consequences are expected to be particularly acute for vulnerable adolescents. Research confirms that teens are at risk for a range of negative outcomes ...

"They blew the levee": distrust of authorities among Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

Complicated grief associated with hurricane Katrina.

BACKGROUND Although losses are important consequences of disasters, few epidemiological studies of disasters have assessed complicated grief (CG) and none assessed CG associated with losses other than death of loved one. METHODS Data come from the baseline survey of the Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group, a representative sample of 3,088 residents of the areas directly affected by Hur...

Environmental Lead after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina deaths, Louisiana, 2005.

OBJECTIVE Hurricane Katrina struck the US Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, causing unprecedented damage to numerous communities in Louisiana and Mississippi. Our objectives were to verify, document, and characterize Katrina-related mortality in Louisiana and help identify strategies to reduce mortality in future disasters. METHODS We assessed Hurricane Katrina mortality data sources received in...