Mental and Social Health in Disasters : Relating Qualitative Social Science Research and the Sphere Standard  

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Batniji, Rajaie ; Ommeren, Mark Van ; Saraceno, Benedetto

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 8 (Apr. 2006), page 1853-1864.
Topik: health; mental health; disaster; sphere; policy; anthropology; qualitative methods

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Increasingly, social scientists interested in mental and social health conduct qualitative research to chronicle the experiences of and humanitarian responses to disaster. We reviewed the qualitative social science research literature in relation to a significant policy document, the sphere handbook, which includes a minimum standard in disaster response addressing, mental and social aspects of health involving 12 interventions indicators. The reviewed literature in general support relevance of the sphere social health intervention indicators. However social scientist chronicles of the diversity and complexity of communities and responses to disaster illustrate that theses social interventions cannot be assumed helpful in all settings and times. With respect to sphere mental health intervention indicators, the research largerly ignores the existence and well being of persons with pre-existing, severe mental disorders in disasters, whose well being is addressed by the relevant sphere standard. Instead many social scientists focus on and question the relevance of pos ttraumatic stress disorder focused interventions, which are common after some disasters and which are not specifically covered by the sphere standard. Overall, social scientists appear to call for a social response that more actively engages the polititcal, social and economic causes of sufefring, and that recognizes the social complexities and flux that accompany disaster. By relating social science research to the sphere standard for emntal and social health, this review informs and illustrates the standard and identifies aeras of needed research.

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