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A psychoepidemiologic approach to the study of disaster.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: ENG Publication details: APR 1987Description: 24p., 4 figs, refs p115-122Subject(s): Subject: Discusses conceptual issues related to stress, distress, and disaster, and provides a rationale for the use of a comprehensive, psychoepidemiologic model of distress as a possible means of systematizing research in the area. A review of the model's components, which include exposure to stressors, vulnerability, and psychological and social resources, is presented. Various ways to implement the model practically and methodologically in disaster research also are discussed.
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Reprinted from Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 15., April 1987, pp99-122

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Discusses conceptual issues related to stress, distress, and disaster, and provides a rationale for the use of a comprehensive, psychoepidemiologic model of distress as a possible means of systematizing research in the area. A review of the model's components, which include exposure to stressors, vulnerability, and psychological and social resources, is presented. Various ways to implement the model practically and methodologically in disaster research also are discussed.

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