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Document Source: Satchit Balsari, M.D.
Year: 2010
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: analysis, earthquake, statistics
Haiti has long had difficulty in protecting its children from harm. The earthquake that struck the country on January 12 destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as it killed many government officials and UN workers
August 22, 2021
Document Source: Marisa O Ensor
Year: 2010
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: analysis, earthquake, statistics
With a recorded magnitude of 7.3 and a death toll of over 200,000 people, the January 12, 2010 earthquake provoked Haiti’s worst catastrophe in 200 years. The country was already the poorest in the Western hemisphere before this disaster. Long-term political strife, high population density and a severely depressed economy have been compounded in recent […]
Document Source: Daniel Derivois , Jude Mary Cénat , Nephtalie Eva Joseph , Amira Karray , Khadija Chahraoui
Year: 2016
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: adolescent, analysis, earthquake
Working with street children and adolescents who lived through the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, this paper aims to assess the prevalence of symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression in relation to peritraumatic distress, and age, and to explore other risk factors and socio-demographic characteristics, four years after the events. Between March and June 2014, with […]
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Year: 2012
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: analysis, assessment, earthquake, statistics
The vulnerability of children in Haiti has increased dramatically since the earthquake in January 2010. Prior to the earthquake, the prevalence of orphans and at-risk children was high but since the earthquake, more than 1 million people—with more than 380 000 children remaining displaced and living in over 1200 displacement sites. These existing conditions leave […]
Document Source: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Year: 2014
Language: English
Categories: Restavek
Tags: analysis, nutrition, statistics
Between 1995 and 2012, many surveys including child and maternal nutrition indicators were conducted in Haiti. While many questions emerged from the results of those surveys, they have remained unanswered, in particular as they pertain to the determinants of poor children’s and women’s nutrition in Haiti. The purpose of this paper is to fill that […]
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