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- Title
Katrina’s Impact on Mental Health Likely to Last Years.
- Authors
Voelker, Rebecca
- Abstract
Focuses on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the mental health of survivors who show stress-response symptoms. Idea that mental health services will be needed for years; Comment of David Edward Post, medical director of the Capital Area Human Services District in Baton Rouge, La., and others; Factors that made Katrina different for other disasters in the United States; A clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Psychosocial Implications of Disaster or Terrorism on Children: A Guide for Pediatricians"; Web sites for more information.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HURRICANE Katrina, 2005; DISASTERS &; psychology; EMOTIONAL trauma; MENTAL health services; POST-traumatic stress disorder
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005, Vol 294, Issue 13, p1599
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.294.13.1599