Children and Families
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
After disaster exposure, children are at risk for developing physical health problems, mental health symptoms, and difficulties in school. The hallmark mental health symptom observed among children after a disaster is post-traumatic stress (e.g., flashbacks,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Family reunification, the process of bringing members of a family, specifically children, back together after an event, is an essential component of disaster preparedness and management. Natural and mass casualty (no-notice) disasters can strike at any...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | In the aftermath of disasters, prompt and safe family reunification is crucial, especially for pre-verbal children separated from their families. Settings may remain unsafe in the aftermath of disasters, and without the application of technology,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Today’s children are expected to experience two to seven times more disaster events than their grandparents (Thiery et al., 2021). Climate-related disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires are key drivers of the outsized impacts disasters will have on...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
The 2010 report of the National Commission on Children and Disasters recommended that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should “enhance the research agenda for children’s disaster mental and behavioral health, including psychological first...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Pediatric Disaster Medicine in Oklahoma Oklahoma, the famed Sooner State, is home to an estimated 4,019,800 people and is known for its cowboy culture, Native American heritage, energy, agriculture, and Route 66. The picturesque south-central plains are located...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Longstanding Gaps in Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Disasters overwhelm health care resources and endanger everyone in a community. Children are more vulnerable to disasters than healthy adults for several reasons. They lack the problem-solving skills,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 23, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Symposium on Pediatric Disaster Science, which was led by the Action Collaborative for Disaster Research, was held August 1st and 2nd, 2022, in Washington, DC. The meeting convened...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States largely focused on addressing the immediate health consequences from the emergent pathogen. This initial focus often ignored the related impacts from the pandemic and from mitigation...
by Madeleine Deye | Jun 26, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction In 2015, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) released the report Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress as a “basic, minimum slate of core metrics for use as sentinel indices of performance...
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