Disaster Mythology and Fact: Hurricane Katrina and Social Attachment

AUTOR(ES)

Jacob, Binu

FONTE

Association of Schools of Public Health

RESUMO

Misconceptions about disasters and their social and health consequences remain prevalent despite considerable research evidence to the contrary. Eight such myths and their factual counterparts were reviewed in a classic report on the public health impact of disasters by Claude de Ville de Goyet entitled, The Role of WHO in Disaster Management: Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction (Geneva, World Health Organization, 1991), and two additional myths and facts were added by Pan American Health Organization.

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