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Adults inside the Gulf Coast location of Mississippi have experienced increased rates of chronic diseases such as hypertension since Hurricane Katrina, and children in the location have experienced increased rates of mental health problems, according to study recently released by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University as well as the Children’s Health Fund, the New York Times reports. For the study, researchers conducted interviews with families in the Gulf Coast location of Mississippi who live in private trailer parks, in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer parks or in trailers on their own properties one year right after the hurricane, which occurred in August 2005. The study found that the rate of hypertension diagnoses amongst adults increased by far more than one-third since the hurricane. In addition, the study found that diagnoses of depression and anxiety among children increased by 400% since the hurricane. According towards the Times, the study “showed no improvement since a survey in Louisiana six months earlier.” Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Mailman School of Public Health and co-founder with the Children’s Health Fund, stated that a lack of leadership and inconsistent private donations have led to an unequal distribution of help for Gulf Coast residents since the hurricane. He stated, “It’s not a lack of money. It’s a lack of distribution of the resources. We have a completely dysfunctional distribution system and a great deal of bureaucracy.” Redlener added, “For all the practical purposes, these FEMA trailer parks are in fact internal refugee camps. Families are mired in these horrendous conditions with no sense of when this is going to be over, either inside the minds of the families or within the officials responsible for them” (Dewan, New York Times, 2/2).
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