SUMMARYAs experts in disaster mental health push to reframe disaster response as a preventive medicine rather than its actual state of acute management, various factors should be considered Although a whole population may be victim to the effects of disasters, particularly vulnerable are those with severe mental illness Therefore, efforts geared to bolster trauma response should centre on these individuals, starting at a community level and reaching organisational and governmental endeavours and funding
Impact of global and national crises on people with severe mental illness