Meeting the Medical and Mental Health Needs of Children After a Major Hurricane

The large number of hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region of the United States after the year 2000 has been a great stimulus for research in health effects and health care delivery after a major hurricane. Much of this study has been devoted to children, with over 200 publica‐ tions on the subject, nearly three quarters of which were published after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, LA (2005). Importantly, this recent research has focused not only on meet‐ ing medical health care needs of children, but also on meeting mental health needs which might be unique to the aftermath of a major disaster. This chapter will provide a compre‐ hensive review of this literature, providing a resource for health care providers who are co‐ ordinating and providing care after a major hurricane.

• Publication year

  2012

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2012-12-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5772/51750
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