Can community social cohesion prevent posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of a disaster? A natural experiment from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 902-910

  Hikichi, Hiroyuki ^a   Aida, Jun ^b   Tsuboya, Toru ^b   Kondo, Katsunori ^c   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

community social cohesion; disaster; disaster resilience; Japan; posttraumatic stress disorder; spatial Durbin model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; HEALTH RISK; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TSUNAMI;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY LIVING; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COHESION; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DURBIN MODEL; TSUNAMI; AGE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVOR; VERY ELDERLY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84971525410     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv335     Document Type: Article

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