The assumed relevance of social capital for disaster mental health has been underscored by national and international policies to develop social capital in disaster-affected communities (12, 14– 14).
Eleven more people were killed by collapsing walls and rising floodwaters in the capital area, disaster officials said.
Living with the ever-present threat of the Big One – a huge quake that experts say is due to strike Tokyo in the coming decades – has turned the city into the world capital of disaster readiness, according to 2020 organising officials.
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between social capital and disaster mental health outcomes in combination with these individual factors.
Wind et al. explored the association between social capital and disaster mental health in a community-based, cross-sectional study after the flood in Morpeth, Northern England (16 ).
First, the cross-sectional design did not allow for the establishment of a causal relationship between social capital and disaster mental health (50).
The study explores the relationship between social capital and disaster mental health outcomes (PTSD, anxiety, and depression) in combination with individual factors (appraisal, coping behavior, and social support).
And thus, scholars concluded that current evidence on social capital and disaster mental health is inconclusive and inadequate to inform the development of specific social capital interventions to combat mental illness (17, 18).
The aim of this study was to examine the relationships of the individual perception of social capital with disaster mental health outcomes in combination with individual factors that have found to mediate the impact of trauma on mental health (2, 20, 21).
Despite national and international policies to develop social capital in disaster-affected communities, empiric evidence on the association between social capital and disaster mental health is limited and ambiguous.
Britain and Switzerland in particular are pressing their banks to hold lots more capital; past disasters have also persuaded management to cut their losses.
