Also, we found that a higher education level was associated with lower risk of post-traumatic stress, which is in line with many other studies, 26 including Scandinavian disaster populations.
The 2010 pre-disaster population of Otsuchi was 15,300.
At the time of the survey, we were uncertain of the post-disaster population due to various factors, including unconfirmed numbers of dead, missing, or relocated residents; therefore, we sent out notices of our health survey and questionnaire to all 11,411 residents aged 18 years or older based on the provisional figures available.
Understanding people's movements in disasters, by setting up systems to track disaster-induced population movements, into and out of formal and informal displacement sites, as well as profiling affected persons and their host communities, is key to effective delivery of services and assistance (Yonetani and Yuen 2014).
The burden of excess morbidity and mortality caused by disasters may vary depending on the underlying characteristics of the disaster-affected population [ 4].
Some are part of the disaster-affected population, the very people humanitarian technologies promise to empower.
Garner's experience in northern Iraq led him to focus on the potential for a humanitarian disaster: displaced populations, starvation, outbreaks of disease, prisoners of war, and, above all, chemical-weapons attacks.
MEXICO CITY — The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic has reached more than 900, the government reported Sunday, as aid groups rushed soap and clean water to a disaster-wracked population to fight the disease.
Following a disaster, poor populations often have no other option than to carry out sub-standard reconstruction and resettlement in high-risk areas.
With almost 200 million people forced to move as a consequence of sudden-onset natural hazards over the last 6 years (IDMC 2015), management of disaster-induced population movements has emerged as a priority for DRM actors all over the world.
