Earthquake and psychiatry in Kobe

Kobe earthquake and the patients on hemodialysis.

Kobe Earthquake and the Patients on Hemodialysis A. Akio Inui H. Hideaki Inoue M. Masaharu Uemoto M. Masato Kasuga H. Hiroshi Taniguchi Study Group of Kansai Society of Behavioral Medicine, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Metabolism and Community Health Science, Kobe University School of Medicine, Inoue Clinic, and Department of Psychiatry, NishiKobe Medical Center, Kobe, ...

Kobe earthquake and reduced sperm motility.

We investigated a possible relationship between the Kobe earthquake (January 17, 1995) and the quality of semen. We assessed sperm concentration and motility of 27 male patients who had a concentration of more than 30 million/ml and >40% sperm motility within 5 months before the earthquake. Twelve male patients from districts with a magnitude of <4 on the Richter scale showed no difference in s...

Disaster Mitigation Engineering -the Kobe Earthquake Disaster

The concept of plate tectonics is generally accepted in earth science and seismology. The surface of the earth is divided into rigid tectonic plates that move on the earth surface at extremely slow speed. The islands of Japan sit on the North American and Eurasian plates. The Pacific plate moves westward and the Philippines plate moves to northwest direction; both plates sink under the islands ...

Kobe Earthquake and Post-Traumatic Stress in School-Aged Children

BACKGROUND The psychological reactions to catastrophic events are not known well in children. PURPOSE The present study was performed to quantify the core features of post-traumatic stress reactions in schoolchildren after the Kobe earthquake. METHODS Children's psychological reactions to the Kobe earthquake were examined in a total of 8,800 schoolchildren attending the third, fifth, or eig...

Earthquake damages to hospitals and clinics in Kobe, Japan.