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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2013 Jul;17(5):783–796. doi: 10.1007/s10995-012-1068-x

Table 1.

Studies examining post-disaster reproductive health outcomes in the United States, published between 1981 and 2010

Disaster name and year Author and publication
date
Exposures*
Outcomes
Physical1 Psychological2 General3 Pregnancy
loss
Birth
outcomes
Fertility
Hurricane Agnes (1972) Janerich et al. (1981) X X
Hurricane Hugo (1989) Cohan and Cole (2002) X X
Hurricane Andrew (1992) Zahran et al. (2010) X X
Northridge Earthquake (1994) Glynn et al. (2000) X X
Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) Rodgers et al. (2005) X X
North Dakota Red River Flood
 (1997)
Tong et al. (2010) X X X
World Trade Center Attack
 (2001)
Berkowitz et al. (2003) X X
Lederman et al. (2004) X X
Engel et al. (2005) X X
Perera et al. (2005) X X
Eskenazi et al. (2007) X X
Lipkind et al. (2010) X X X
Hurricane Katrina (2005) Xiong et al. (2008) X X
Hamilton et al. (2009) X X X
Harville et al. (2010) X X
*

Exposures:

1

Physical exposure to toxicants;

2

Psychological trauma (measured);

3

General exposure to disaster