mental health in natural disasters, (a general review on international attempts and national programs)

Mental health tasks in general health programs.

Mental health implications for older adults after natural disasters--a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Natural disasters affect the health and well-being of adults throughout the world. There is some debate in the literature as to whether older persons have increased risk of mental health outcomes after exposure to natural disasters when compared with younger adults. To date, no systematic review has evaluated this. We aimed to synthesize the available evidence on the impact of natura...

Managing Impact of Natural Disasters : Some Mental Health Issues

The earthquake and tsunami waves that caused widespread death and destruction in much of Asia and other parts of the World on the tragic Sunday (26.12.04) has highlighted the immense human suffering that goes with massive disasters. This editorial is penned as a grim remainder for us to look at the disasters from the mental health perspective and device short and long term plans to understand, ...

Mental Health Impact of Disasters

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Disasters, victimization, and children's mental health.

In a representative sample of 2,030 U.S. children aged 2-17, 13.9% report lifetime exposure to disaster, and 4.1% report experiencing a disaster in the past year. Disaster exposure was associated with some forms of victimization and adversity. Victimization was associated with depression among 2- to 9-year-old disaster survivors, and with depression and aggression among 10- to 17-year-old disas...

Economics of Natural Disasters: A Critical Review

Significant progress has been made in recent years for modeling spatial economic impacts of disasters in a regional context (for example, Okuyama and Chang eds. Modeling the Spatial Economic Impacts of Disasters, forthcoming). While these advancements are more toward modeling strategies based on conventional frameworks, little has been dealt with the theory on economics of disasters, since the ...