Injuries and building data pertinent to the Loma Prieta earthquake county of Santa Cruz

ABSTRACT

Past investigation on the public health consequences of natural disaster (e.g., earthquakes) have generally suffered from a lack of comprehensive data due, in part, to the difficulty facedby researchers in mounting a significant data collection effortin the aftermath of such an event. For a meaningful assessment to be made, field data must be gathered not only on the victims of the events but olso on the nature of the damage sustained and the context of the injury.this paper outlines some preliminary data concerning the injury outcomes and the results of a survey conducted on the structures where both hospital and the results of a survey conducted on the structures whereboth hospital and dead cases and injured controls were located when injured (AU)