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How do natural disasters affect individual levels of stress in a community?

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Natural disasters have a tremendous effect on individual levels of stress in a community, which is largely due to the fact that natural disasters usually cause injuries and or a loss of life within these communities, which is tremendously stressful and devastating to the individuals that suffer these losses. In addition, natural disasters ...

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