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Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11

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What three points, details or references from the film did you follow up on to learn more? Write short descriptions of what you learned in your search, providing citations.

The entire video was very compelling.

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Intimate Partner Violence and Hurricane Katrina: Predictors and Associated Mental Health Outcomes

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Describe the methodology of the study. Is this a new or inventive way of studying this issue?

Many studies look at intimate partner voilence (IPV), but only two previous studies look at it specifically related to a natural disaster, so this research is inventive in that way. It uses data from a larger study of the area that was hit by Katrina. The data was obtained through interviews, and in the period of time 6 months before Katrina to 6 months after, measures of psychological and physical IPV are analyzed. These measures were also compared to a scale of how stressful the individual's life had been in that time frame, which was reached based on answers to questions about how Katrina affected the individual.