Natural Disaster and Crisis: Lessons Learned About Cleft and Craniofacial Care From Hurricane Katrina and the West Bank

• 2011

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• John van Aalst; Ronald Strauss; Lynn Fox; Cynthia Cassell; Margot Stein; Michael Moses
PMID: 21275880DOI: https://doi.org/10.1597/10-019

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This article explores the impact of acute and chronic crises on cleft care, emphasizing the challenges faced by children with craniofacial anomalies. It highlights how natural disasters, political turmoil, and poverty can disrupt the infrastructure necessary for delivering proper cleft care. Using examples like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and chronic turmoil in the West Bank/Palestine, the article underscores the importance of disaster preparedness, adapting to changing needs post-crisis and monitoring population changes in the aftermath. The narrative emphasizes the essential role of staged surgeries, team-centered follow-up, and long-term care in providing comprehensive cleft care amidst crises.

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Focus Areas: Natural Disasters; Violence

Audiences: EMS Clinicians; Physicians

Emergency Management Stages: Recovery; Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Bundles: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Cleft Lip; Cleft Palate; Delivery of Health Care; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Health Services Accessibility; Louisiana; Middle East; Natural Disasters; Societies, Medical; Cyclonic Storms; Craniofacial Abnormalities; Warfare

Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Children's Hospital New Orleans; University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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