Coping with extreme hazard events: emerging themes in natural and technological disaster research.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1987Description: 17p., 1 tab, 1 fig, 42 refsSubject: The field of thanatology has given extensive attention to death as an outcome of illness. Deaths from both natural and technological disasters continue to increase in the United States, despite intensified government efforts to reverse this trend, and despite improved understanding of the cognitive processes of people who face either long-term or impending catastrophes. Key findings are reviewed in the areas of vulnerability of natural hazards, disaster behaviour and risk perception, societal concern over technological hazard, and the social-psychological effects of disasters. It is noted that findings based on natural disasters cannot necessarily be extrapolated to technological disasters, such as the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Furthermore, data on long term emotional recovery from natural disasters are inconsistent. Among areas requiring more extensive research is the role of the media, and the measurement of secondary consequences to disaster exposure. Improved methodologies for measuring distress over long periods of time must be developed. The disaster may never end for technological disaster victims because of the long latency period between exposure and disease manifestation.
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Reprinted from Omega; 1987-88; Vol 18 No 4; pp281-297
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The field of thanatology has given extensive attention to death as an outcome of illness. Deaths from both natural and technological disasters continue to increase in the United States, despite intensified government efforts to reverse this trend, and despite improved understanding of the cognitive processes of people who face either long-term or impending catastrophes. Key findings are reviewed in the areas of vulnerability of natural hazards, disaster behaviour and risk perception, societal concern over technological hazard, and the social-psychological effects of disasters. It is noted that findings based on natural disasters cannot necessarily be extrapolated to technological disasters, such as the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Furthermore, data on long term emotional recovery from natural disasters are inconsistent. Among areas requiring more extensive research is the role of the media, and the measurement of secondary consequences to disaster exposure. Improved methodologies for measuring distress over long periods of time must be developed. The disaster may never end for technological disaster victims because of the long latency period between exposure and disease manifestation.
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