What happened to elderly people in the great Hanshin earthquake

British Medical Journal

Volumn 313, Issue 7065, 1996, Pages 1133-1135

  Tanida, Noritoshi ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; EARTHQUAKE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SHORT SURVEY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0029903411     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7065.1133     Document Type: Short Survey

References (6)

1. Bolin R, Klenow DJ. Response of the elderly to disaster: an age-stratified analysis. Int J Aging Hum Dev 1982-3;16:283-96.
2. Raphael B. When disaster strikes. How individuals and communities cope with catastrophe. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
3. The Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health and Welfare. The profiles of casualties in the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake from vital statistics. Tokyo: Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1995. (In Japanese.)
4. Shiozaki Y. Earthquake and damage of houses. In: Earthquake Study Group of Kobe University, ed. Records of 100 days of great earthquake. Kobe: Kobe-Shinbun General Publishing Center, 1995: 49-55. (In Japanese.)
5. Shiro H. Stress and anxiety in disaster. In: Earthquake Study Group of Kobe University, ed. Records of 100 days of great earthquake. Kobe: Kobe-Shinbun General Publishing Center, 1995: 167-77. (In Japanese.)
6. Okamoto Y. Health care for the elderly in Japan: medicine and welfare in an aging society facing a crisis in long term care. BMJ 1992;305:403-5.