Hurricane Katrina evacuees had deep distrust of public health authorities
... ... "The statements of distrust were not solicited they were all spontaneous statements," said lead re...Extended family ties influenced evacuation decisions during Hurricane Katrina
... IMPACT: Disaster pla...Household levels of mold following Hurricane Katrina surpass some agricultural environments
... Following Hurricane Katrina, many New Orl...Levels of serious mental illness in Katrina survivors doubled compared to earlier survey
Boston, MA-- According to the most comprehensive survey yet completed of mental health among Hurricane Katrina survivors from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the proportion of people with a serious mental illness doubled in the months after the hurricane compared to a survey carried out several years before the hurricane. The study also found that thoughts of suicide did not increase despit...Katrina survey shows many suffered extreme adversity and show signs of post-traumatic stress
Boston, MA--According to the most comprehensive survey of people affected by Hurricane Katrina, the vast majority of pre-hurricane residents of the affected areas in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi experienced a significant loss in one or more of the areas of finances, income, and housing. More than one-third experienced extreme physical adversity and nearly one-fourth experienced extreme p...Hurricane Katrina Community Aadvisory Group Survey Findings
... ... Recollection of Evacuation preparations... Post-evacuation stressful experiences... Current practical problems and proposed solutions... Rating the helper agencies and organizations... Residential mobility plans... Post-traumatic stress reactions... Post-traumatic personal growth... The long-term perspective... ... ... ... STUDY ELEMENT...ASH Katrina Relief Program receives ASAE's 2006 Associations Advance America Award of Excellence
... ... When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, ASH was forced to move its 20,000-attendee annual meeting from New Orleans to...LSUHSC public health documents unmet health needs of Katrina-displaced
New Orleans Working with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, a group of students from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans' School of Public Health found a host of under or untreated medical and mental health conditions affecting adults and children living in FEMA-subsidized housing units (trailers and hotel rooms) in Louisiana. On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced...New Hurricane Katrina survivor initiative to guide policy
Beginning Jan. 10, Harvard Medical School, through a $1 million grant by the National Institute of Mental Health, will begin recruiting a statistically representative sample of 2,000 survivors of Hurricane Katrina to serve in the Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group. Group members will provide personal health and needs assessment information to help inform public policy. One thousand member...RSVP: Telecon on Hurricane Katrina Survivor Initiative - Jan 5
... Harvard Medical School, through a grant by the National Institute of Mental Health, will recruit 2,000 survivors of Hurricane Katrina to create the Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group. The group will provide ongoing information to policy-makers to help monitor the pace of recovery of the more than two million families whose lives were disrupted by Hurricane Katrina, with a strong emph...'A virtual Katrina' of deaths every week in US due to racial health gap
Research estimates that health inequalities between white and black Americans cause 84,000 extra deaths every year equating to a virtual hurricane Katrina every week, says an editorial in this week's BMJ....... But because the victims die gradually from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, HIV, and from drug and alcohol abuse, the public are generally unaware of the scale of the fat...UCSD leads team to build Geographic Information System to assess toxic hazards from Katrina
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have been awarded $760,000 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to build a Geographic Information System (GIS). This system will link to the NIEHS Hurricane Katrina Information Website, providing workers in the field and researchers with up-to-date information regarding toxicant exposure and human healt...Study shows Hurricane Katrina affected 20,000 physicians, up to 6,000 may have been displaced
CHAPEL HILL -- Hurricane Katrina and the city-swamping floods that drowned New Orleans and surrounding areas in a toxic gumbo appear to have dislocated up to 5,944 active, patient-care physicians, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. That is the largest single displacement of doctors in U.S. history, and Hurricane Rita over the weekend will have boosted the total to an u...Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
Boston, MA -- To give voice to people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing floods, The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a unique survey of evacuees in shelters in the Houston area. One-third (34%) of Katrina evacuees report that they were trapped in their homes and had to be rescued. Half (50%) of tho...Television viewing of Katrina will have psychological effects on children around the country
The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina have been felt across the country during the past weeks. Thousands of children are survivors of Katrina, while millions of others around the country have observed horrific sights via media coverage. Although they were not directly involved with the tragedy, repeated television viewing of the disaster puts these children at high risk for developing Po...