Recovery
Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in August 2005, exposed area residents to trauma and extensive property loss. However, little is known about the long-run effects of the hurricane on the mental health of those who were exposed. This study documents long-run changes in mental health among a particularly vulnerable group—low income mothers—from before to after the hurricane, and identifies factors that are associated with different recovery trajectories. Longitudinal surveys of 532 low-income mothers from New Orleans were conducted approximately one year before, 7–19 months after, and 43–54 months after Hurricane Katrina. While the federal government has slowly begun to grapple with the costs of rebuilding levees and decimated neighborhoods, arts institutions in southern Louisiana and Mississippi are facing a harsh reality: No public funds of any sort have been earmarked for their recovery. And operating dollars, never very easy to come by, are drying up.
Read more about this topic: Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief
Famous quotes containing the word recovery:
“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Walking, and leaping, and praising God.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 3:8.
Referring to the miraculous recovery of a lame man, through the intervention of Peter.