Welcome to Disaster Health
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As Editors-in-Chief, and on behalf of our distinguished Editorial Board, we are thrilled to welcome you to this inaugural issue of Disaster Health. Disaster Health is uniquely focused on the intersection of disaster mental and behavioral health and disaster public health. In this multi-disciplinary arena, scientific advances are accelerating. Disaster Health provides a mechanism for expeditious sharing of research findings and a forum for collegial commentary and expert consensus building. Disaster Health investigates the linkage between exposure to the physical forces of harm in a disaster and the corresponding risks to mental and behavioral health. Disaster Health examines the continuum of human response to disaster threat and impact, ranging from psychological distress and psychopathology to resilience, wellness and post-traumatic growth. At the community and societal levels, Disaster Health explores the psychological and behavioral dimensions of disaster prevention, mitigation, risk reduction and resilience. As a rapid-publication, peer-reviewed journal, Disaster Health prioritizes the publication of well-designed and well-executed studies that solidify and enrich the scientific evidence base. We seek publications spanning the complete spectrum of natural, Welcome to Disaster Health
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Abstract: Learning from best practices in improving the productivity of human societies. One of the main factors that cause great damage is not enough information about natural disasters and man-made and the lack of attention to the importance and role of public security, health and disaster relief is on. People involved in assisting in disaster relief and can help relieve the suffering of peop...
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Your comments are most welcome and I agree, multiple issues arise in control and containment that clinicians and decision-makers have little experience with. For all practitioners, those public health skills are fundamental. They must be equally translatable to every patient as well as to decisions made by the broad international community. Collaboration and cooperation is essential. One reason...
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