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The Impact of Disasters on Populations With Health and Health Care Disparities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Jennifer R. Davis ,
Sacoby Wilson ,
Amy Brock-Martin ,
Saundra Glover  and
Erik R. Svendsen
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Abstract

Context: A disaster is indiscriminate in whom it affects. Limited research has shown that the poor and medically underserved, especially in rural areas, bear an inequitable amount of the burden.

Objective: To review the literature on the combined effects of a disaster and living in an area with existing health or health care disparities on a community's health, access to health resources, and quality of life.

Methods: We performed a systematic literature review using the following search terms: disaster, health disparities, health care disparities, medically underserved, and rural. Our inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed, US studies that discussed the delayed or persistent health effects of disasters in medically underserved areas.

Results: There has been extensive research published on disasters, health disparities, health care disparities, and medically underserved populations individually, but not collectively.

Conclusions: The current literature does not capture the strain of health and health care disparities before and after a disaster in medically underserved communities. Future disaster studies and policies should account for differences in health profiles and access to care before and after a disaster.

(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2010;4:30-38)

Keywords

healthcare disparitiesdisasterssocioeconomic factorsrural health servicesmedically underserved areasurge capacityreview articlescommunity health planningcommunity disaster response
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 30 - 38
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2010

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