Mental health recovery and economic recovery after the tsunami: High-frequency longitudinal evidence from Sri Lankan small business owners

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 582-595

  de Mel, Suresh ^b   McKenzie, David ^a   Woodruff, Christopher ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed effects; Livelihood recovery; Mental health recovery; Return to normalcy; Sri Lanka; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; HEALTH IMPACT; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTER; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; SRI LANKA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTERS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SRI LANKA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 37249033278     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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