Shanthi Nataraj

Vanessa Parks

Rajeev Ramchand

Lynsay Ayer

Noreen Clancy

Andrew M. Parker

Melissa L. Finucane

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg

Alejandro U. Becerra-Ornelas

Tim Slack

Amanda F. Edelman

Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers

Craig A. Bond

Amy E. Lesen

Regardt J. Ferreira

Leah Drakeford

Jacqueline Fiore

Margaret M. Weden

K. Brent Venable

A. Barrie Black

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The scale of the disaster motivated diverse stakeholders to examine the human dimensions of the spill and how communities' resilience to similar threats could be improved. This examination is needed because, as long as humans depend on extracting oil and gas for energy, coastal regions are at risk for spills. In this report, the authors explore how communities, government officials, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and scientists can build community resilience to large oil spills. Researchers found mixed evidence of distress associated with the DWH disaster and a variety of factors that affected the nature and severity of people's experiences.

Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills

Kimberly A. Hepner

Carrie M. Farmer

Liisa Hiatt

Heather Krull

Thomas W. Concannon

Molly Simmons

Francesca Pillemer

Teague Ruder

Maulik P. Purohit

Benjamin Batorsky

A RAND study, the first to examine care received by a census of active-duty service members diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the Military Health System, assessed the number and characteristics of these patients (including deployment history and history of traumatic brain injury), their care settings, the treatments they received, co-occurring conditions, the duration of treatment, and the risk factors for requiring long-term care.

Understanding Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military Health System

Andrew M. Parker

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