 Earthquakes
"Earthquakes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Sudden slips on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slips, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or other sudden stress changes in the earth. Faults are fractures along which the blocks of EARTH crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture.
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D055866
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.311.250
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Earthquakes" by people in Profiles.
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James LE, Welton-Mitchell C, Noel JR, James AS. Integrating mental health and disaster preparedness in intervention: a randomized controlled trial with earthquake and flood-affected communities in Haiti. Psychol Med. 2020 01; 50(2):342-352.
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Liang Y, Cheng J, Ruzek JI, Liu Z. Posttraumatic stress disorder following the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: A 10-year systematic review among highly exposed populations in China. J Affect Disord. 2019 01 15; 243:327-339.
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Welton-Mitchell C, James LE, Khanal SN, James AS. An integrated approach to mental health and disaster preparedness: a cluster comparison with earthquake affected communities in Nepal. BMC Psychiatry. 2018 09 15; 18(1):296.
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Coughlin RR, Roy N, Patel V. Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Coincidental Involvement in the Gujarat Earthquake, India (2001). J Orthop Trauma. 2015 Oct; 29 Suppl 10:S11-3.
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Niitsu K, Watanabe-Galloway S, Sayles H, Houfek J, Rice M. A Pilot Study of the Psychological Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2014 May; 20(3):194-202.
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James LE, Noel JR, Roche Jean Pierre YM. A mixed-methods assessment of the experiences of lay mental health workers in postearthquake Haiti. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2014 Mar; 84(2):152-63.
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Doocy S, Jacquet G, Cherewick M, Kirsch TD. The injury burden of the 2010 Haiti earthquake: a stratified cluster survey. Injury. 2013 Jun; 44(6):842-7.
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James LE, Noel JR. Lay mental health in the aftermath of disaster: preliminary evaluation of an intervention for Haiti earthquake survivors. Int J Emerg Ment Health. 2013; 15(3):165-78.
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Babcock C, Theodosis C, Bills C, Kim J, Kinet M, Turner M, Millis M, Olopade O, Olopade C. The academic health center in complex humanitarian emergencies: lessons learned from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Acad Med. 2012 Nov; 87(11):1609-15.
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Ho MJ, Chen WS, Hirsh D. On being there. Acad Med. 2012 Jul; 87(7):931.
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