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Buela, Charles Bill

Magdaluyo, Jotham Rey
Riego, Patricia Anne
Saliba, Mark Ian Julius
Santos, Gerard Joshua

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Kishore, N., Marqués, D., Mahmud, A., Kiang, M. V., Rodriguez, I., Fuller, A., Ebner, P.,
Sorensen, C., Racy, F., Lemery, J., Maas, L., Leaning, J., Irizarry, R. A., Balsari,
S., & Buckee, C. O. (2018). Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. In
New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 379, Issue 2, pp. 162–170).
Massachusetts Medical Society. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa1803972

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According to the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention, deaths can be
directly attributed to a tropical cyclone
if they are caused by forces related to
Multiple-clause sentences the event, such as flying debris, or if Introduction, par.2
they are caused by unsafe or
unhealthy conditions resulting in injury,
illness, or loss of necessary medical
services.

The timely estimation of the death toll

after a natural disaster is critical to
defining the scale and severity of the
crisis and to targeting interventions
for recovery. The
Passive Voice disaster-relatedness of deaths has Discussion par. 4
additional importance for families
because it provides emotional
closure, qualifies them for
disaster-related aid, and promotes
resiliency.

In our survey, interruption of medical

Subject-verb interruption care was the primary cause of Discussion par. 3
sustained high mortality rates in the
 months after the hurricane, a finding
consistent with the widely reported
disruption of health systems.37 Health
care disruption is now a growing
contributor to both morbidity and
mortality in natural disasters.15,38,39
In the United States, this phenomenon
has been observed in the aftermaths
of Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm
Sandy, and more recently Hurricanes
Harvey and Irma, in which nursing
home residents and those dependent
on life-sustaining equipment were
disproportionately affected.40

Consent for participation was

acquired before administration of the
survey. This study was granted a
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human subjects research exemption Methods, par.3
(45CFR46) by the institutional review
board of the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health.

Significant population displacement

was found in the survey, which the
respondents attributed to Hurricane
Maria (Figure 2). There were reports
of 268 people (2.8% of the studied
population) leaving their homes as a
result of the hurricane. The median
age of individuals who left the home
and did not return, or who went
missing, was 25, whereas the median
age of those who remained or passed
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away at the home was 50. The
majority (52%) of persons who
evacuated due of the hurricane moved
somewhere in Puerto Rico, although
many (41%) went to various locations
on the US mainland. The hurricane is
said to have caused a total of 521
people (5.5% of the sampled
population) to move into the surveyed
households. the proportion of
households unable to other issue.