Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 20-27 , January 2010

Resilience After Hurricane Katrina Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women

  • Emily W. Harville, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Emily Harville, 1440 Canal St. SL-18, New Orleans, LA 70112-2715; Phone: 504-988-7327; fax: 504-988-1568.
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  • Xu Xiong, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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  • Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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  • Gabriella Pridjian, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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  • Karen Elkind-Hirsch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Woman's Hospital Research Institute, Woman's Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Received 29 September 2009 ,Revised 26 October 2009 ,Accepted 26 October 2009.

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 The pregnancy study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health (NIH/NICHD 3U01HD040477-05S) and the postpartum study by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (R21 MH078185-01), Bethesda, Maryland, United States. Dr. Harville was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K12HD043451). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development or the National Institutes of Health.

 Dr. Harville had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

PII: S1049-3867(09)00128-5

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.10.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 20-27 , January 2010

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