This study investigated pre- to post-disaster changes in happiness of 491 women affected by Hurricane Katrina, and identified factors that were associated with the survivors' happiness after the storm. Participants completed surveys approximately 1 year before and 1 and 4 years after the storm. The surveys collected information on the women's happiness, social support, household characteristics...

Residents’ satisfaction with post-disaster reconstruction in earthquake-stricken areas directly affects their quality of life, which cannot be ignored reconstruction. More than 10 years after the Wenchuan earthquake, we took ten randomly selected villages five hardest-hit by earthquake as research objects and obtained 483 valid completed questionnaires. The villagers were sampled descriptive st...

Current trends in disaster response and management include various stakeholders, including non-government organisations (NGOs), volunteer groups other humanitarian organisations, working alongside governmental agencies. Together, they are directly involved reconstruction efforts, with support often extending from the early to long-term reconstruction. The common goal of efforts spanning last fe...

BACKGROUND Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction is commonly performed in the United States with numerous options available to patients and providers. This study evaluated patient race and provider in prediction of patient satisfaction following post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. METHODS The patient satisfaction for women who underwent post mastectomy breast reconstruction at U...

BACKGROUND Mainstay of post-burn reconstruction is release and split skin grafting. Pedicle flaps are cumbersome to the patient, require multiple procedures and hospitalization. Free flaps are technically demanding and facilities are not universally available. Here we evaluated the local perforator flaps for post-burn reconstruction. METHODS We have used sixteen perforator propellar flaps fo...