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February 2006, Vol 96, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 204
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.080119

LETTER

HURRICANE KATRINA: A SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER

Sandra Crouse Quinn, PhD

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sandra Crouse Quinn, PhD, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 230 Parran Hall, 130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (e-mail: squinn@pitt.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Jim Wallis, executive director of Sojourners, a Christian ministry, as quoted by

The Washington Post1

Hurricane Katrina made it evident that natural disasters occur in the same social, historical, and political environment in which disparities in health already exist. The hurricane was only the disaster agent; what created the magnitude of the disaster was the underlying vulnerability of the affected communities. In New Orleans, where 69% of the population is African American and 23% live below the poverty line, thousands of African Americans were stranded after the evacuation order. . . . [Full Text]




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