Long-Term Mobility and Well-being of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina

项目总结 与天气有关的灾害在美国经常发生，但我们对其长期影响知之甚少 影响。2005年8月29日袭击新奥尔良的卡特里娜飓风是研究最多的飓风之一 美国历史上的灾难，大多数与健康相关的研究都集中在短期结果上，如死亡率， 和心理健康。总体而言，人们对灾害在美国的长期影响知之甚少，因为缺乏 适当的数据和设计和收集具有代表性的曝光者样本的高昂成本 灾难过后的人口。这一极具创新性的项目克服了科学知识的障碍 通过使用现有的人口普查、调查和管理数据构建几个 受卡特里娜飓风影响的新奥尔良人口的纵向人口代表性数据集和样本 规模足够大，可以研究小团体和样本设计，从而产生公正的结果。这个 产生的纵向数据集将允许检查基于压力和社会的假设 脆弱性理论。这些分析将检查住宅的流动性、邻里特征、 年受卡特里娜飓风影响的新奥尔良居民的经济状况、死亡率和健康结局 灾后十年(2006-2015)。研究结果将为设计有效的产品提供关键信息 减灾和应对政策，以增进福祉和消除灾害之间的健康差距-- 受影响的人口。

PROJECT SUMMARY Weather-related disasters are a regular occurrence in the U.S., yet we know very little about their long-term impacts. Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans on August 29, 2005, is one of the most researched disasters in U.S. history with most health-related research focused on short-term outcomes, such as mortality, and mental health. In general, little is known about long-term effects of disasters in the U.S. due to a lack of appropriate data and the high cost of designing and collecting representative samples of the exposed population after a disaster. This highly innovative project overcomes barriers to scientific knowledge about long-term disaster impacts by using existing census, survey, and administrative data to construct several longitudinal population representative data sets for the Katrina-affected New Orleans population with sample sizes large enough to study small groups and sample designs that will produce unbiased results. The longitudinal datasets produced will allow for the examination of hypotheses based in stress and social vulnerability theories. The analyses will examine the residential mobility, neighborhood characteristics, economic status, mortality, and health outcomes of the Katrina-affected residents of New Orleans in the decade following the disaster (2006-2015). The results will provide key information for designing effective disaster mitigation and response policies to promote wellbeing and eliminate health disparities among disaster- affected populations.