Preparing and Rebuilding After Natural Disasters: A New Public Health Normal!

Alfredo Morabia, Georges C Benjamin

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Article in American journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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The immediate and lasting impact of Hurricane Sandy on pregnancy complications in eight affected counties of New York State.The Science of the total environment · 2019
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Disaster Preparedness and Response: Who Will Fund?American journal of public health · 2018
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Community and Street-Scale Supports for Walking in the US Virgin Islands Before the 2017 Hurricanes.American journal of public health · 2018
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
After Harvey, Irma, and Maria, an Opportunity for Better Health-Rebuilding Our Communities as We Want Them.2018
Comment on
Disasters Through the Lens of Disparities: Elevate Community Resilience as an Essential Public Health Service.2018
Comment on
A Humanitarian Crisis: Lessons Learned From Hurricane Irma.2018
Comment on
Maria in Puerto Rico: Natural Disaster in a Colonial Archipelago.2018
Comment on
Climate Change, Hurricanes, and Health.2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alfredo MorabiaAlfredo Morabia is the Editor-in-Chief of AJPH. Georges C. Benjamin is the Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.

Georges C BenjaminAlfredo Morabia is the Editor-in-Chief of AJPH. Georges C. Benjamin is the Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cyclonic StormsDisaster PlanningDisastersNatural DisastersPublic Health

Identifiers

PMID29211520

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2017.304202

PMCPMC5719715

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