阪神淡路大震災被災地の状況の一断片 : 震災後の情報欠如と住民健康診断(災害・大地震後遺症における自己管理の方法)

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The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake forced a number of victims to take shelter at school building and in public parks. Although information was indispensable to help provide the victims with their necessities, communication systems had been virtually paralyzed during the period immediately following the quake. Indeed, even the computer networks including the Internet, supposedly the promising means of communication of the future, had also proved inadequate in the state of emergency. The situation could have been better, however, if there had been a reliable data base for emergency purposes established in advance. According to a health survey of the citizens of Nishinomiya-city, while the victims' physical and mental conditions were at their lowest in the first two to three months, they showed a remarkable recovery by six months after the disaster. Nevertheless, as a result of public health examination, the number of those requiring some kind of medical treatment greatly exceeded the regular annual average, demonstrating the adverse affects of the earthquake of people's overall well-being.