The Impact of Health Education or Health of the Victims of the Earthquake in Disaster Area

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10.2991/asshm-14.2014.7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Health Education; Earthquake Disaster; Victims Health

Abstract

Earthquakes, floods, mudslides, wars and other major traumatic events can have on people's physical and mental health caused serious damage, leading to muscle tension, loss of appetite, mental panic, mood disorders, behavioral disorders and other stress reactions, and young people are in the physical and psychological rapid growth, physical and mental health are more susceptible to traumatic events. Earthquakes are a common type of devastating natural disasters, crises, with sudden, social urgency, high uncertainty and the impact [1] is a serious incident (critical incident). As Solomon said, the critical incident refers to a cause that cannot resist the feeling of self-generated and lost control of the situation. Individuals in such stress situations, often find it difficult to solve, it is difficult to grasp. The disruption of normal life and inner tension continue to savings followed by a loss even thinking and behavior disorders, and enter into a state of imbalance, that is in a state of psychological crisis. According to the theory of stress, personal reactions to stress are not only the nature of the sources of stress, but also the state of stress modifiers (stress moderators) is related. Stress modifiers include factors of personality, coping style, social support and external resources, and regulate the experience of stress and stresseffects individuals. Faced with such a severe earthquake emergencies, victims have their own coping strategies that affect the victims of the earthquake's psychological reaction, thereby determining the psychological crisis intervention in key areas and populations.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Liu Wei
AU  - Shi Benhui
AU  - Jiang Lanping
AU  - Tangs Xiaolin
PY  - 2014/12
DA  - 2014/12
TI  - The Impact of Health Education or Health of the Victims of the Earthquake in Disaster Area
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 2nd International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities and Management
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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