Citation

Wang Y, Zhu Y, Sui Q. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017; 14(6): e14060590.

Affiliation

Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. suiqi@mail.bnu.edu.cn.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph14060590

PMID

28574480

Abstract

This research examined the ethnic differences in domestic recovery after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China. In 2014, 866 valid questionnaires were collected. Han and Qiang & Zang households were analyzed using logistic regression to determine the factors influencing household recovery. It was found that the householder of the Qiang & Zang group played a more important role in household recovery. Different from the Han, females from Qiang & Zang households had negative attitudes on recovery, and Qiang & Zang households did not believe in the effectiveness of public donations for post-quake recovery. The study also showed that local workers in a household were more helpful for household recovery than were migrant workers in a household, regardless of ethnicity. Therefore, the government should create more local jobs in Han and Qiang & Zang households and pay more attention to women in Qiang households. Assistance should be established specifically for the psychological recovery of Qiang women and family recovery projects.

Language: en

Keywords

domestic life recovery; earthquake; ethnic group; households; logistic regression