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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-06-26
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 080189199X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Natural Disasters and Public Health pdf
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The events of Hurricane Katrina have been seared into our collective consciousness, revealing a glaring discrepancy between the experiences of privileged whites and those of low-income blacks. The latter faced a scale of physical danger and mental trauma that the former largely escaped. While residents with resources evacuated in cars, poor residents were left to fend for themselves—without food, water, medicine, shelter, or safety. Many poor African Americans died; many more lost loved ones and all of their material belongings. Natural Disasters and Public Health analyzes the public health effects of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma on minorities in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.The contributors assess the overall health policy and public health implications of these three natural disasters. While most of the current literature on disaster relief focuses on FEMA, race, urban planning, and the environment, Natural Disasters and Public Health takes a broader perspective, a Download Natural Disasters and Public Health for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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