Crisis Not Over for Hurricane Victims

Thousands of Gulf Coast families displaced in 2005 by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are the victims of an unprecedented epidemic of chronic medical and mental health problems, yet are receiving little appropriate care, reveals a report released 17 April 2006 from the Mailman School of Public Health. "A year after Katrina, over half of the New Orleans population has not returned—perhaps as many as three hundred thousand people," says principal investigator David Abramson, acting director of research at the Columbia University National Center for Disaster Preparedness. Many families still live in FEMA-subsidized trailer parks.
from Environmental Health Perspectives