A5088661141- Health and Conflict Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Disaster Response and Management
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Milken Institute
2018-2019
George Washington University
2018-2019
University of Puerto Rico System
2019
BackgroundHurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on Sept 20, 2017, devastating the island. Controversy surrounded official death toll, fuelled by estimates of excess mortality from academics and investigative journalists. We analysed all-cause following storm.MethodsWe did a time-series analysis in September, to February, 2018. Mortality data were Vital Statistics System. developed two counterfactual scenarios establish population at risk. In first scenario, island's was assumed track most...
Sandberg, John; Santos-Burgoa, Carlos; Roess, Amira; Goldman-Hawes, Ann; Pérez, Cynthia M; Garcia-Meza, Alejandra; Goldman, Lynn R. Author Information
Crises such as Hurricane Maria and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have revealed that untimely reporting of death toll results in inadequate interventions, impacts communication, fuels distrust on response agencies. Delays establishing mortality are due to contested definition deaths attributable a disaster lack rapid collection vital statistics data from health system infrastructure. Readily available counts, combined with geographic, demographic, socioeconomic data, can...