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Disabled account for 25% of Japan's 2011 quake-linked deaths: survey
KYODO NEWS KYODO NEWS - 24 minutes ago - 08:04 | All, Japan
TOKYO - Nearly a quarter of those who died of illness or stress linked to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan's hardest-hit prefectures were disabled, a Kyodo News survey released Sunday showed.
Disabled people accounted for 24.6 percent of total "disaster-related deaths" in the northeastern prefectures of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi, far above their 7 percent representation among the population as a whole estimated by the health ministry.
It is also much higher than the around 14 percent representation of people aged over 65, many of whom died after the disaster on March 11, 2011, because of deteriorating health and living conditions in shelters and other evacuation facilities.
The survey targeting 42 municipalities in the prefectures affected by the quake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis was carried out ahead of the ninth anniversary of the triple disaster...
"Some couldn't go to crowded evacuation centers and lived in physically challenging conditions, inside large vehicles or on the second floors of inundated houses, for example," said Kazuhiko Abe, a Tohoku Fukushi University professor.
"The stress was big in temporary housing too," Abe said, noting many of them were not designed for people with physical disabilities...
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Disabled account for 25% of Japan's 2011 quake-linked deaths: survey
KYODO NEWS KYODO NEWS - 24 minutes ago - 08:04 | All, Japan
TOKYO - Nearly a quarter of those who died of illness or stress linked to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan's hardest-hit prefectures were disabled, a Kyodo News survey released Sunday showed.
Disabled people accounted for 24.6 percent of total "disaster-related deaths" in the northeastern prefectures of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi, far above their 7 percent representation among the population as a whole estimated by the health ministry.
It is also much higher than the around 14 percent representation of people aged over 65, many of whom died after the disaster on March 11, 2011, because of deteriorating health and living conditions in shelters and other evacuation facilities.
The survey targeting 42 municipalities in the prefectures affected by the quake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis was carried out ahead of the ninth anniversary of the triple disaster...
"Some couldn't go to crowded evacuation centers and lived in physically challenging conditions, inside large vehicles or on the second floors of inundated houses, for example," said Kazuhiko Abe, a Tohoku Fukushi University professor.
"The stress was big in temporary housing too," Abe said, noting many of them were not designed for people with physical disabilities...
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