09 Sep
Public Health and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned and What We Can Do Now
For several decades, national data have documented that health disparities, specifically related to race and poverty, are real. Subsequent to the terrible devastation of Hurricane Katrina with over 1,000 deaths in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and destroyed property, hopes and dreams across the region, the unacceptable levels of morbidity and mortality and disparities [...]