Extremes in Context: A Life-Course Approach to Disaster Mental Health

Sarah R Lowe; Ethan J Raker; Meghan L Zacher

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.022

Extremes in Context: A Life-Course Approach to Disaster Mental Health

One Earth. 2020 Jun 19;2(6):497-499. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.022.

Authors

Sarah R Lowe¹, Ethan J Raker², Meghan L Zacher³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
³ Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Abstract

Exposure to disasters has a range of adverse mental-health consequences. This Commentary argues that to understand variation in post-disaster mental health, we must look beyond the disaster itself to other sources of vulnerability throughout the life course, as well as the developmental stage at which the disaster was experienced.

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