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  • Chapter 11 - Mental Health in the Context of Multiple Exposures to Disasters

  • from Section 1 - The Nature and Impacts of Twenty-First-Century Healthcare Emergencies
  • Edited by Richard Williams, University of South Wales, Verity Kemp, Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant, Keith Porter, University of Birmingham, Tim Healing, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, John Drury, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 58-62

  • Summary

    Most disaster research, resources, and interventions for mental health have been based on the premise of a single incident or disaster occurring. This chapter presents the results of a scoping review on mental health in the aftermath of multiple disaster exposures. It draws on existing evidence from cases in which communities have experienced disasters in rapid succession or years apart. It focuses on groups of findings on cumulative effects, re-activation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and links between mental and physical health. This chapter makes the case that multiple disaster exposures have different implications to exposure to a single disaster, and should be treated as a priority emerging public health issue, given the projected increases in the frequency and severity of disasters due to climate change.