Are there any techniques design to tackle complication that may arise from non-communicable (chronic) diseases during and after a disaster?
If yes, have this been able to change the pattern of morbidity and mortality resulting from chronic diseases like diabetes during or after a disaster?
What are the current pattern of NCDs mortality and morbidity during and after disasters?
Hi Geoff - there are some good papers on this topic. Here is one to get you started. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/29/1/158.full.pdf
Hi Geoff. This is an interesting quesiton, however from what we have been able to see there is little evidence which shows a change in the incidence of diabetes. Ben Ryan a PhD student at JCU is specifically looking at the issue of the impact of disasters on NCDs. A couple of his recent publications include information about these impacts and can be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593706/ and http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9548284&fileId=S1049023X1400137X.
If you can not access these paper through the links then please send me a message and I will send you copies.
Regards
Richard
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9548284&fileId=S1049023X1400137X
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593706/
If you are happy to focus down to earthquake then look at the work of Thomas Kuhn and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Population Health - they have done a meta analysis on this question..
Thanks Deon, Richard and Paul for your support.
@Richard, I was able to access the papers.
@Paul, Can you help me with links because I can't find them.
Thanks all once more
Dear Geoff
It was very interesting question.
I attached papers that may give a preliminary figure of real situation: the effect of disasters on NCD (diabetes).
I have never conducted any study of this topic, but as Indonesia is at risk of disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoon, floods and erosion. A few years ago, I have ever in the situation of disaster and after disaster management (Merapi Mountain Volcano), I opinion that there are various aspects (health condition before and after disaster, socio eco before and after disaster, stressor, self control before and after disaster) that can predict the incidence of diabetes and / or glycemic control of diabetes or another NCDs in disastrous conditions.
I hope it will useful for you.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9472208
https://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/144/2/188.full.pdf
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