Katrina and vulnerability: The geography of stress

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 315-330

  Curtis, Andrew ^a,b   Mills, Jacqueline Warren ^a   Leitner, Michael ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b World Health Organizing Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing   (United States)

Author keywords

Disasters; Geographic information system; GIS; Hazards; Stress; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NATURAL DISASTERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 34249315463     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2007.0029     Document Type: Article

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