Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and Recovery - A longitudinal mixed method study of the medium to long term impacts of bushfires on mental health and social connectedness

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gibbs, Lisa ^a   Waters, Elizabeth ^a   Bryant, Richard A ^b   Pattison, Philippa ^c   Lusher, Dean ^d   Harms, Louise ^a   Richardson, John ^e   MacDougall, Colin ^f   Block, Karen ^a   Snowdon, Elyse ^a   Gallagher, Hugh Colin ^c   Sinnott, Vikki ^g   Ireton, Greg ^h   Forbes, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e Emergency Services   (Australia)

^f FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^h Department of Human Services ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Disasters; Epidemiologic methods; Mental health; Qualitative research; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; FIRE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTERS; FIRES; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENTAL HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886732375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1036     Document Type: Article

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