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Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster.

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Ho, JY; Frankenberg, E; Sumantri, C; Thomas, D
Published in: Population and development review
September 2017

Exposure to extreme events has been hypothesized to affect subsequent mortality because of mortality selection and scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster. For this population, the dynamics of selection and scarring are a complex function of the degree of tsunami impact in the community, the nature of individual exposures, age at exposure, and gender. Among individuals from tsunami-affected communities we find evidence for positive mortality selection among older individuals, with stronger effects for males than for females, and that this selection dominates any scarring impact of stressful exposures that elevate mortality. Among individuals from other communities, where mortality selection does not play a role, there is evidence of scarring with property loss associated with elevated mortality risks in the five years after the disaster among adults age 50 or older at the time of the disaster.

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Population and development review

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0098-7921

Publication Date

September 2017

Volume

43

Issue

3

Start / End Page

467 / 490

Related Subject Headings

  • Demography
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 4403 Demography
  • 1603 Demography
 

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Ho, J. Y., Frankenberg, E., Sumantri, C., & Thomas, D. (2017). Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster. Population and Development Review, 43(3), 467–490. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12075
Ho, Jessica Y., Elizabeth Frankenberg, Cecep Sumantri, and Duncan Thomas. “Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster.Population and Development Review 43, no. 3 (September 2017): 467–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12075.
Ho JY, Frankenberg E, Sumantri C, Thomas D. Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster. Population and development review. 2017 Sep;43(3):467–90.
Ho, Jessica Y., et al. “Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster.Population and Development Review, vol. 43, no. 3, Sept. 2017, pp. 467–90. Epmc, doi:10.1111/padr.12075.
Ho JY, Frankenberg E, Sumantri C, Thomas D. Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster. Population and development review. 2017 Sep;43(3):467–490.
Journal cover image

Published In

Population and development review

DOI

ISSN

0098-7921

Publication Date

September 2017

Volume

43

Issue

3

Start / End Page

467 / 490

Related Subject Headings

  • Demography
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 4403 Demography
  • 1603 Demography