Methodological Challenges and Contributions in Disaster Epidemiology

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Abstract
Considering the very unusual and extreme situations under which a disaster and the corresponding adverse health responses occur, it is challenging to provide a unified methodological framework for disaster epidemiology. In this commentary, we identify targets of estimation and common challenges in estimating the quantities of interest. In some cases, we discuss methodological contributions and future work regarding the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies of disasters. To ground our points, we refer to some of the papers published in this issue.