{"id":48616,"date":"2016-08-12T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=48616"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:16:10","slug":"infant-mortality-in-post-earthquake-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/12\/infant-mortality-in-post-earthquake-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant mortality in post-earthquake Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Victoria Fan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> Assistant Professor Victoria Fan<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor Timothy Halliday<\/a><\/strong> and Bradley Chen investigated infant and child mortality in after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Their study “The impact of internal displacement on child mortality in post-earthquake Haiti: a difference-in-differences analysis<\/a>” was published in the International Journal for Equity in Health<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study found that births from camp households had higher infant mortality and child mortality than those not living in camps. These odds are higher despite better access to food, water, bed net use, mosquito spraying and vaccines among camp households. Efforts are needed to identify vulnerable populations to provide targeted assistance in post-disaster relief.<\/p>\n

“The data indicates that those living in camps are getting several key health services, but the services may not be of adequate quality to reduce child mortality,” said Fan. “We also found that those who did not or could not move, either to camps or elsewhere, are quite vulnerable as well. These populations are the literally ‘left behind.’”<\/p>\n

“In carrying out disaster relief, providing a lot of materials and supplies to camps is not sufficient,” said Chen. “Despite better access to food, water and vaccines, kids in camps are still having worse health than other migrant and displaced households. Those reasons need to be better understood.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Â鶹´«Ã½Mānoa researchers find more needs to be done to assist displaced families living in camps as a result of natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[301,1409,165,241,449,9],"class_list":["post-48616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48616"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82573,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48616\/revisions\/82573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}