Economics of Disaster Risk, Social Vulnerability, and Mental Health Resilience

Risk Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1107-1119

  Zahran, Sammy ^a   Peek, Lori ^a   Snodgrass, Jeffrey G ^a   Weiler, Stephan ^a   Hempel, Lynn ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health resilience; Natural disaster risk; Single mothers; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECONOMIC COSTS; GENERAL PUBLICS; HURRICANE INTENSITY; KATRINA; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL DISASTER RISK; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; PRODUCTIVITY LOSS; RECOVERY TIME; RESISTANCE CAPACITY; SINGLE MOTHERS; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY;

DISASTERS; HEALTH; HURRICANES;

HEALTH RISKS;

CHILD HEALTH; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HURRICANE RITA 2005; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTER; SINGLE PARENT; TIME SERIES; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; POVERTY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 79959608986     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01580.x     Document Type: Article

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