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Louisiana State of Mind: Women’s Mental Health after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Author(s) -

Nancy Averett

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.124-a170

Subject(s) - deepwater horizon , oil spill , horizon , mental health , state (computer science) , mental state , environmental health , environmental science , psychology , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , environmental protection , mathematics , geometry , algorithm

Studies of several different oil spill disasters have shown that the people affected by these disasters can suffer adverse mental health and behavioral effects. 1 , 2 But does the psychological impact of this kind of event differ among subgroups of the affected population? A new study explores that question by looking at how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 specifically impacted women’s mental health and likelihood of domestic conflict. 3

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