Book contents
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Dedication
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Disaster Mental Health Research:
- Part One Concepts
- Part Two Psychopathology After Disasters
- Part Three Vulnerability And Resilience
- Part Four Special Groups
- Part Five Interventions And Health Services
- Part Six Case Studies
- 23 The Mental Health Impact of the Southeast Asia Tsunami
- 24 Advances in Our Understanding of Earthquake Trauma and Its Treatment:
- 25 Hurricane Katrina
- 26 The Long-Term Mental Health Impacts of the Chernobyl Accident
- 27 TheExxon ValdezOil Spill
- 28 Enschede Fireworks Disaster
- 29 Eyewitness to Mass Murder:
- 30 The Oklahoma City Bombing
- 31 The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City
- 32 The Psychological Consequences of the London Bombings
- 33 Psychological Responses to Terrorism in Israel: 2000–2004
- Part Seven Questions and Directions
- Index
28 - Enschede Fireworks Disaster
from Part Six - Case Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
Book contents
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Dedication
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Disaster Mental Health Research:
- Part One Concepts
- Part Two Psychopathology After Disasters
- Part Three Vulnerability And Resilience
- Part Four Special Groups
- Part Five Interventions And Health Services
- Part Six Case Studies
- 23 The Mental Health Impact of the Southeast Asia Tsunami
- 24 Advances in Our Understanding of Earthquake Trauma and Its Treatment:
- 25 Hurricane Katrina
- 26 The Long-Term Mental Health Impacts of the Chernobyl Accident
- 27 TheExxon ValdezOil Spill
- 28 Enschede Fireworks Disaster
- 29 Eyewitness to Mass Murder:
- 30 The Oklahoma City Bombing
- 31 The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City
- 32 The Psychological Consequences of the London Bombings
- 33 Psychological Responses to Terrorism in Israel: 2000–2004
- Part Seven Questions and Directions
- Index
Summary
The Enschede Fireworks disaster was not characterized by continuous reports in the media and speculations about possible toxic exposure. Early measures of fireworks-related elements and the blood and urine assessments prevented this kind of negative aftermath, which might have delivered additional stress for the survivors. The main objective of the studies after the fireworks disaster was to obtain relevant information on the adverse effects on health in the short-, intermediate-, and long-term for use by health care providers and policy makers. There are very few longitudinal comparative studies postdisaster where control subjects are assessed at more than one wave in the intermediate and long term. This chapter focuses on the main results of studies with respect to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health disturbances, physical problems, and predictors of disturbances that were of special interest. Several studies after disasters have examined postevent mental health services (MHS) utilization.
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- Mental Health and Disasters , pp. 473 - 496Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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