• The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is a reminder of the urgent need for developing and implementing recommendations for the control of chronic diseases during disasters. (cdc.gov)
  • The studies related to natural disasters consisted of two performed with adult survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that affected south-east Asia, one with Hurricane Katrina survivors, and one with survivors of the recurring Bihar floods. (thunai.org)
  • With disasters like Hurricane Katrina, our heartstrings are tugged as we witness cities underwater, mothers crying out for their children, and the newly homeless wandering the streets. (linode.com)
  • The types of traumas that commonly cause PTSD include exposure to natural disasters, combat situations, accidents involving serious injury or death, and any situation where one's life is threatened. (debox.co)
  • Exposure to trauma during disasters and conflict, together with the cascading effects of bereavement, forced displacement, injury and resource loss has the potential to cause long-term psychological distress (1-3). (who.int)
  • Addressing mental health in the aftermath of disasters therefore requires careful long-term planning and substantial knowledge of the pattern of response across affected populations. (who.int)
  • except for one moment in our past, there has never been anything un-conservative or controversial about helping the victims of disasters. (livingontherealworld.org)
  • And back on the mainland, Houston and surrounding areas are rebuilding and dealing with the toxic aftermath of the catastrophic flooding and subsequent air pollution caused by Hurricane Harvey, one of the nation's most destructive natural disasters to date, which killed at least 82 people. (phi.org)
  • To a certain extent, disasters like firestorms and hurricanes are an unavoidable part of life on Earth-scientists do not believe they are a direct result of climate change. (phi.org)
  • After the first physical, medical and emergency response, identification of psychological distress symptoms is useful in guiding public health efforts in the aftermath of disasters. (bvsalud.org)
  • U.S. health officials will collect samples, interview trailer residents, and focus on air quality issues and exposures, including children, the disaster agency said. (blogspot.com)
  • The formaldehyde controversy, revived scrutiny of the disaster-response agency. (blogspot.com)
  • Chronic illnesses are exacerbated by the conditions caused by a disaster (e.g., lack of food, lack of clean water, extremes of cold or heat, physical and mental stress, injury, exposure to infection). (cdc.gov)
  • The term "disaster" denotes a low-probability but high-impact event that causes a large number of individuals to become ill or injured. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The aftermath of the hurricane created a humanitarian crisis unparalleled in U.S. history, with federal disaster declarations covering 90,000 square miles (Associated Press 2005a,c). (nationalacademies.org)
  • These resources can also help natural disaster victims or those who want to be aware of all the necessary information if something terrible happens. (custom-writing.org)
  • Disaster restoration worker Marcos takes a selfie at work in Fort Myers, Florida, after Hurricane Ian. (publicintegrity.org)
  • The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency created to protect workers, has ignored research on workplace safeguards against post-disaster toxic exposures. (publicintegrity.org)
  • For example, in the wake of the Mt. St. Helen's volcanic eruption, Shore, Tatum, and Vollmer (1986) found a significant dose-response relationship between exposure to the disaster and increased mental disorders. (cdc.gov)
  • Key risk factors for the cause or maintenance of psychological distress among survivors include severity of trauma exposure, female gender, pre-existing psychological conditions and the presence of ongoing chronic stressors in the post-disaster environment (11, 18). (who.int)
  • The Delta Caucus partners have received substantial interest from local leaders in southern Louisiana in setting up a series of Community Health Houses here to deal with the health care problems caused by the oil disaster as well as long-term recovery after Hurricane Katrina. (mdgc.us)
  • SEPT. 23 FUNDRAISER FOR OIL DISASTER VICTIMS - As part of the Sept. 21-23 Delta conference in Washington, DC, the Delta Caucus will hold a fund-raiser/issues forum for victims of the oil disaster and Hurricane Katrina at the sanctuary of the historic Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill near the US Supreme Court, Thursday morning, Sept. 23, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30. (mdgc.us)
  • These workers - who clear debris and build anew after hurricanes, floods and wildfires - perform the most arduous tasks. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Just in the last month, we've seen the profound impact of hurricanes fueled by warm water temperatures and wildfires fueled by warm temperatures," Rudolph said during a press briefing last month about our increasing number of extreme heat days. (phi.org)
  • On behalf of the European Commission, let me therefore express to all of you - distinguished heads of delegation and representatives of government, labour and industry from the United States of America - my deepest sympathy for the victims of this tragedy and my hope that hurricane relief efforts will rapidly turn into a rebirth of this extraordinary city and of the entirety of the Gulf area. (euusosh.org)
  • In developing countries, diarrhea is a seasonal scourge usually worsened by natural phenomena, as evidenced by monsoon floods in Bangladesh in 1998, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, or the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. (medscape.com)
  • The oil spill, and our ensuing response, has created a darker and deadlier aftermath that will persist for decades. (linode.com)
  • Like the first stage of cancer, which often goes long-undetected, this aftermath is a slow, deadly creep. (linode.com)
  • Resilient mechanisms intervened in aftermath of the earthquake but the long-lasting alterations of the social networks need to be monitored. (bvsalud.org)
  • For example, we can reasonably project that the number of people with cancer who were directly affected by the Hurricane Katrina evacuation is in the tens of thousands (J. King, written communication, September 2005). (cdc.gov)
  • More recently, Fergusson, Horwood, Boden, and Mulder (2014) found a dose-response relationship between exposure and impact of the earthquake and a range of mental health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Serious and long-lasting psychiatric consequences can be found in children and adolescents following earthquake, including the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Instruments included the demographic questionnaire, questionnaire about earthquake exposure, the Social Support Appraisal Scale (SSA), the Posttraumatic stress disorder Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C), and the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV Disorders (SCID). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Pubmed using the search terms `L'Aquila' displaced in locations within a 150 km area and `earthquake' as keywords. (bvsalud.org)
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop in response to a traumatic event such as death or the threat of death, serious injury, or sexual violence. (debox.co)
  • While some individuals may be more predisposed than others to developing PTSD based on their genetic makeup or social support structure-for example those with lower resilience are at greater risk-it is important to remember that anyone can experience long-term psychological effects from a traumatic event if it is sufficiently distressing. (debox.co)
  • PTSD is a series of chronic emotional responses to a traumatic event or situation involving severe environmental stress, with symptoms of re-experiencing, avoidance and hyper arousal. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Compared with other pregnant women, women in the early stages of pregnancy may be at higher risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes because of exposure during organogenesis to toxins or infectious agents. (cdc.gov)
  • In Detroit, I met with community members diagnosed with cancer linked to exposure to toxins after years of living in the shadow of a massive oil refinery. (elizabethwarren.com)
  • Without protection, workers are exposed to lethal toxins making them sick long after the cleanup. (publicintegrity.org)
  • The long-term effects of trauma include both physiological symptoms like hyper-arousal (a state of high alertness that trauma survivors often experience) and psychological symptoms including social avoidance and isolation, loss of trust, dissociation, etc. (thunai.org)
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a syndrome resulting from exposure to real or threatened serious injury or sexual assault. (medscape.com)
  • Having prior trauma exposure increases the risk of developing PTSD after another incident due to lack of resilience resources and coping strategies. (debox.co)
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a serious condition that can have devastating long-term effects if left untreated. (debox.co)
  • People with this condition often suffer nightmares related to their trauma, experience sudden panic attacks without any identifiable trigger, become highly anxious and irritable as well as display hyperarousal symptoms like insomnia, poor concentration, reckless behavior and extreme startle responses to minor environmental cues. (debox.co)
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics remains deeply concerned that Gulf Coast children residing in FEMA trailers may have been and may continue to be exposed to levels of formaldehyde gas that are hazardous to both their short-term and long-term health," Dr. Scott Needle of the American Academy of Pediatrics said in testimony for the committee today. (blogspot.com)
  • On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, leaving more than 1,300 people dead, countless injured, and more than 1 million displaced. (nationalacademies.org)
  • When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, it quickly became apparent that the impact of the storm fell disproportionately on low income and minority households in both Louisiana and Mississippi.1 Moreover, prior to the hurricane, the Lawyers' Committee had several clients in Mississippi and Louisiana for whom we were providing legal assistance on community development issues. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Headquartered in Japan, Artists without Borders invites established and emerging artists in all creative genres to apply their skills toward the purpose of providing "psychological relief to the victims of war in the form of art and/or entertainment. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Exposure to trauma has potential to induce a range of psychological and neuropsychiatric disorders. (who.int)
  • Some of them are also calling the Ohio toxic train derailment "the Biden regime's Hurricane Katrina. (ecology.news)
  • Flood victims, for example, may demonstrate very strong emotional responses to rain, storm clouds, the sound of running water or the sight or smell of mud," he says. (counseling.org)
  • Hurricane Harvey, followed quickly by Irma, left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150-180 billion. (indymedia.org)
  • Catastrophic flooding in the Houston area after Hurricane Harvey. (phi.org)
  • The recent hurricanes and California's tragic fires are another demonstration of the fact that climate change is already threatening our health and safety," says Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, director of the Public Health Institute's Center for Climate Change and Health in Oakland, CA. "And these incidents are only going to get worse if we don't act now. (phi.org)
  • Today, Waxman and Davis charged that FEMA's apparent ongoing indifference to storm victims and resistance to investigators marked an infuriating pattern of bureaucratic self-protection that augurs poorly for the nation's emergency preparedness. (blogspot.com)
  • The official death count of 64 is a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after Hurricane Maria," researchers wrote. (indymedia.org)
  • Hurricane Katrina had a substantial and disproportionate impact on low income homeowners and renters in Mississippi. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The purpose of this work is to examine the relationship between alcohol use and level of involvement during Hurricane Katrina among law enforcement officers, and to investigate whether marital status or previous military training offer resilience against negative outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • But, despite all these warnings, the federal response in the Gulf region before, during, and after Katrina was seriously lacking. (ncd.gov)
  • With a hurricane, we know the death toll, the devastation right away. (linode.com)
  • Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico. (phi.org)
  • On the other side of the country, Puerto Ricans are reeling from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria. (phi.org)
  • Individuals fall into one of those three categories based on the nature of the event, and the most significant predictors of outcome severity are proximity, duration, and exposure intensity (Benedek et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Only the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines ultimately cleared the way for the EU, and Germany in particular, to become long-term buyers of U.S. natural gas surpluses and to keep the price at a profitable level for U.S. fracked gas producers, even in the long term. (indymedia.org)
  • Emergency Response and the Built Environment: Does Urban Sprawl Delay Ambulance Arrival? (confex.com)
  • OSHA has enacted an emergency-response policy favoring a fast recovery over worker health. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Preoccupied with survival, they can fall victim to abuses routinely inflicted upon immigrant workers in the U.S. - wage theft, harassment. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Revolts at other prisons followed in response to abuses at Attica. (priory.com)
  • In participants who were victims of trauma resulting from interpersonal violence and minor legal offenders in correctional facilities and community homes, meditation and yoga reduced physical and cognitive stress-induced responses. (thunai.org)
  • People are responding to an accumulation of rage, insults, frustrations, and murders by police and racist vigilantes, disproportionately of Black people, resulting from a long history of violence. (versobooks.com)
  • The message was that these victims of police violence had brought it on themselves. (versobooks.com)
  • Graham-Bermann SASeng J Violence exposure and traumatic stress symptoms as additional predictors of health problems in high-risk children. (jamanetwork.com)
  • A 40-page guide to help journalists, photojournalists and editors report on violence while protecting both victims and themselves. (dartcenter.org)
  • it is far more likely that the mentally ill will be victims rather than perpetrators of violence (Stuart, 2003). (lumenlearning.com)
  • These results illustrate an association between law enforcement officers' heavy involvement during Hurricane Katrina and greater levels of hazardous alcohol use when compared to officers with low or moderate involvement. (cdc.gov)
  • There is a quote attributed to Tony Morrison going around that I think has it right, it says: "What struck me most about those who rioted was how long they waited, the restraint they showed. (versobooks.com)
  • At a hearing this morning of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, investigators released internal e-mails indicating that FEMA lawyers rejected environmental testing out of fear that the agency would then become legally liable if health problems emerged among as many as 120,000 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina who lived in trailers. (blogspot.com)
  • Committee Chairman Henry L. Waxman (D-Calif.) called FEMA's bureaucratic neglect of storm victims "sickening. (blogspot.com)
  • In response, the Committee on House Administration held a hearing on accessibility of the House complex for persons with special needs. (ncd.gov)
  • Five Years of Commitment: Providing Legal Assistance in the Gulf Post Hurricane Katrina Five Years of Commitment: Providing Legal Assistance in the Gulf Post Hurricane Katrina Acknowledgements This report was compiled by Joe Rich, Director for the Fair Housing Project at the Lawyers' Committee. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • African-American victims of the South's long history of discrimination were in desperate need of legal assistance and the Lawyers' Committee provided a unique organization designed to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Through this program, the Lawyers' Committee has emerged as the leading national civil rights organization in providing legal assistance to victims of the storm. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Tomorrow, FEMA will supplement federal efforts by deploying a Senior Response Official along with a Regional Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) to support ongoing operations, including incident coordination and ongoing assessments of potential long term recovery needs. (ecology.news)
  • It was as if some tour-book-quality recovery from the debacle of Hurricane Katrina was the committee's principal yardstick. (theind.com)
  • We saw this in Hurricane Sandy last fall, when Governor Christie was flayed by his party for thanking a Democratic president for help, and again when Congress initially balked at passage of a $50B supplemental for recovery of the area, and then more recently as the flow of that promised support to the region has proved slow. (livingontherealworld.org)
  • The effects of demographic factors and dynamics, employment shifts and work organisation changes, gender differentiation, immigration, the size, structure and life cycles of enterprises, the fast pace of technological progress, are examples of the key issues that can generate new types of patterns of hazards, exposure and risks. (euusosh.org)
  • The development of an appropriate response to these issues should rely on and make use of the collective body of knowledge, experience and good practice in this area. (euusosh.org)
  • While I am delighted to share with you this three-day conference, we cannot ignore the tragedy and the sufferings of the thousands of US citizens cruelly hit by Hurricane "Katrina", which devastated the city of New Orleans two weeks ago. (euusosh.org)
  • Modern neo-patrimonialism is a coping response by rulers and citizens to conditions fostered by economic scarcity and institutional incapacity. (oxfordre.com)
  • In addition, indirect effects (e.g., loss of electricity) can lead to exposure to extreme heat or cold or interruption of supplemental oxygen supplies. (cdc.gov)
  • While the causes of trauma can vary widely, Zalaquett says, it is important to recognize when an event implies exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor. (counseling.org)
  • Communities with a heavy concentration of minorities, which also happen to be low-income, have long been the subject of environmental injustice. (bencrump.com)
  • We are all aware of the magnitude of the global impact of occupational accidents and diseases in terms of both human suffering and related economic costs. (euusosh.org)
  • Three of the most enduring annual projects include the Student Legal Relief projects (fka The Katrina Project), the SBA/PILF Auction, and student-supported public interest summer grants. (americanbar.org)
  • The practice goes back to the 1780s, Balogh wrote, and "by the mid-1820s, general relief bills were directed at entire classes of victims. (livingontherealworld.org)
  • Obradovich and his colleagues used the responses to classify people into two groups: those who reported any recent days with poor mental health, and those who didn't. (latimes.com)
  • Self-management support initiatives that aim to improve the self-care of chronic conditions are considered a key part of a health promotion strategy for addressing the impacts of long-term illness. (cdc.gov)
  • 2004). This report expands this definition to include any event that creates a significant, short-term spike in the demand for emergency care services that can be adequately addressed only through extraordinary measures. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Thus, the most critical actions in the immediate management of drowning victims include prompt correction of hypoxemia and acidosis (see Treatment). (medscape.com)
  • The loss may or may not be financial, but it must be reducible to financial terms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some have noted that population growth and urban sprawl are increasing our exposure , so that on that basis alone we can expect greater loss of property and life in future years. (livingontherealworld.org)
  • The exposures, loss of property and damage to Informative System (IS) (GESMA, GEstione home. (bvsalud.org)
  • The first three studies' participants underwent several yoga sessions, the children from Bali underwent Spiritual-Hypnosis Assisted Therapy (SHAT), and the Sri Lankan children received narrative exposure therapy for children (KIDNET) and meditation-relation (MED-RELAX). (thunai.org)
  • He were to the numerous download The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 9: World Christianities c.1914 advisor of the EU courts in Brussels, which offers to have a housing access of adolescents who was to the Gendarmerie or judicial information victims. (ud-collection.de)
  • A construction worker pushes a wheelbarrow in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on Nov. 2, 2022, after Hurricane Ian devastated the area on Sept. 28, 2022. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Long-term effects of cerebral hypoxia, including vegetative survival, are the most devastating (see Treatment). (medscape.com)
  • In addition, data from the 2000 U.S. census long-form survey indicate that 20.2% of the population, roughly 275,000 people, aged 5 years and older in the 10 parishes in the greater New Orleans metropolitan area had a disability of some type (5). (cdc.gov)
  • But, despite the government's failures, the people of Hong Kong, mobilized by the protest movement, launched a response that suppressed the original wave of COVID-19 and mitigated its resurgence. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • And more than 1,800 people died in Hurricane Katrina. (teachthefacts.org)
  • Standing before a two-story house on the coast of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where Hurricane Ian unleashed a seven-foot storm surge two weeks earlier, Marcos looked at the structure, shredded beyond repair. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In response, local community leaders are leading the fight to hold polluters responsible and combat the effects of the climate crisis. (elizabethwarren.com)
  • There is only one group in America that is victim to bigotry on a massive scale, and that is the Christians. (blogspot.com)
  • And I get back to that because there is just no proof (emphasis in original) to what my colleagues are saying about your leadership when just at the time that they're writing a letter complaining about all this and that, you are being rated by your own staff and your own employees as 1 out of 30 of effective leadership in terms of the way you run the place. (atomicinsights.com)
  • At this time, the victim is unable to breathe in air, causing oxygen depletion and carbon dioxide retention. (medscape.com)
  • Only community-engaged GCLBA stewardship was associated with declines in firearm-involved crime and firearm-involved crime with a youth victim over time, relative to comparison properties. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some Katrina trailer residents filed a class-action lawsuit in June in federal court in Baton Rouge against trailer manufacturers. (blogspot.com)
  • In addition, there were marked increases in prevalence of those three disorders among those with the highest exposure when compared to those with low exposure or no exposure (control group). (cdc.gov)
  • The uit were to( her welfare) and in a long television told his treatment. (ud-collection.de)
  • In terms of "fair treatment," environmental justice seeks to evenly spread the negative environmental repercussions that stem from commercial and industrial operations and governmental policies. (bencrump.com)
  • National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy Web-based distance learning course. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Here, Mr Campinos confused quality and production: in terms of legal procedures, some are more fundamental than others. (techrights.org)
  • Public and Endowed Lecture Series coordinated with the Faculty, Deans, Communications, and other administrative offices present an ongoing exposure to an exceptionally diverse range of perspectives on public interest topics. (americanbar.org)
  • The classic image of a victim helplessly gasping and thrashing in the water rarely is reported. (medscape.com)
  • As they noted, active ventilation while submerged is required to aspirate water, as water does not passively flow into the lungs once the victim is dead. (medscape.com)
  • Our crisis of environmental injustice is the result of decades of discrimination and environmental racism compounding in communities that have been overlooked for too long. (elizabethwarren.com)
  • In this moment, our ability to build mutual aid will determine whether we win the world we long for or dive further into crisis. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital city San Juan issued a plea for urgent help as she expressed frustration with the speed at which rescuers were being sent to work on the hurricane-ravaged U.S. territory. (indymedia.org)