Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
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持续存在的自然灾害对儿童健康的影响：1923 年关东大地震的证据
DOI：
10.1111/ehr.13135
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发表时间：
2022
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Ogasawara Kota
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宮地 英敏;Ogasawara Kota
本研究调查了1923年的一次灾难性地震，以分析自然灾害对儿童健康的长期影响。研究结果表明，胎儿暴露于日本关东大地震对灾区女孩的发育不良影响。救灾支出有助于在小学年龄后期纠正男孩的发育迟缓，但它并没有改善女孩的发育迟缓，这表明存在产前选择机制和出生后的补偿投资。由于害怕振动和预期未来会发生余震，产妇的精神压力在对健康的不利影响中发挥了作用，而由于身体受到破坏，产妇的营养压力也加剧了这些影响。
This study examines a catastrophic earthquake in 1923 to analyse the long‐term effects of a natural disaster on children's health. The findings show that foetal exposure to Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake had stunting effects on girls in the devastated area. Disaster relief spending helped remediate stunting among boys by late primary school age, whereas it did not ameliorate girls’ stunting, which suggests a prenatal selection mechanism and compensating investment after birth. While maternal mental stress due to the fear of vibrations and anticipation of future aftershocks played a role in the adverse health effects, maternal nutritional stress via physical disruption also enhanced those effects.