NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Disasters and kids – how to help them recover

  • Written by Betty Lai, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Georgia State University

Louisiana’s historic floods have killed at least eight people. As many as 20,000 others have been rescued and thousands have been forced into shelters.

Disasters, whether natural, like hurricanes and floods, or man-made, like wars, can cause tremendous upheaval in people’s lives.

Imagine what being evacuated from your home – even...

Read more: Disasters and kids – how to help them recover

More Articles ...

  1. The political role of drone strikes in US grand strategy
  2. Range anxiety? Today's electric cars can cover vast majority of daily U.S. driving needs
  3. Not easy being blue: Fatal shootings, job stress make it hard to be a cop
  4. Making college matter
  5. Turkey's post-coup commitment to democracy offers chance to resolve Kurdish crisis
  6. Are U.S. politics beyond a joke?
  7. Parasitic flies, zombified ants, predator beetles – insect drama on Mexican coffee plantations
  8. Beyond borders: Why we need global action to protect migratory birds
  9. Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history
  10. So what if some female Olympians have high testosterone?
  11. Why get a liberal education? It is the life and breath of medicine
  12. Breaking the fourth wall in human-computer interaction: Really talking to each other
  13. Dusty plasma in the universe and in the laboratory
  14. Is the US electoral system really 'rigged'?
  15. How the IOC effectively maintains a gag order on nonsponsors of the Olympics
  16. As Rio bay waters show, we badly need innovation in treating human wastes
  17. Cotton farmers profit from simple steps to help pollinators
  18. Is the 'lesser of two evils' an ethical choice for voters?
  19. Setting robots in motion, quickly and efficiently
  20. How adult learners are not getting 21st-century skills
  21. Why you shouldn't want to always be happy
  22. Trump's and Clinton's economy plans: eight essential reads
  23. Most students borrow for college, but are they financially literate?
  24. Turkey's coup and the call to prayer: Sounds of violence meet Islamic devotionals
  25. When disaster-response apps fail
  26. Uber's Didi deal dispels Chinese 'El Dorado' myth once and for all
  27. What can a 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossil teach us about cancer?
  28. The flossing flap: Mind your dentist, and floss every night
  29. When doping wasn't considered cheating
  30. Why utilities have little incentive to plug leaking natural gas
  31. Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
  32. Some good news on opioid epidemic: Treatment options are expanding
  33. Putin, Obama and the battle for Aleppo
  34. Why save a computer virus?
  35. Remembering Michael Brown: Why black youth are branded as criminals
  36. Here's how competition makes peer review more unfair
  37. Trump's economics speech: seeking conservative cred and kissing babies
  38. How do Olympic athletes pay the electric bill?
  39. Goodbye to the barbershop?
  40. How labor's decline opened door to billionaire Trump as 'savior' of American workers
  41. Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'
  42. Fethullah Gülen: public intellectual or public enemy?
  43. Who owns your tattoo? Maybe not you
  44. Brazil’s sewage woes reflect the growing global water quality crisis
  45. After fatality, autonomous car development may speed up
  46. I'm an OB-GYN treating women with Zika: This is what it's like
  47. Are soaring levels of income inequality making us a more polarized nation?
  48. Latinos face digital divide in health care
  49. What the Bourne films get right and wrong about amnesia
  50. Why it's hard for adults to learn a second language