The physical and social determinants of mortality in the 3.11 tsunami

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-75

  Aldrich, Daniel P ^a   Sawada, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mortality; Natural disasters; Social capital; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; POLICY APPROACH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POLITICS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TSUNAMI; DISASTER; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

DISASTERS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84911091062     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.025     Document Type: Article

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