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Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake
The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, together with the subsequent tsunami and nuclear power station accident, damaged a wide area of land. Children who experienced these terrible disasters and the post-disaster situation are still suffering in mental, physical and social ways. Children...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417348 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children2010039 |
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description | The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, together with the subsequent tsunami and nuclear power station accident, damaged a wide area of land. Children who experienced these terrible disasters and the post-disaster situation are still suffering in mental, physical and social ways. Children’s play is an activity that they undertake naturally and which can help them recover from such disasters. This paper addresses the role of play, adventure playgrounds and other play interventions, including play buses, for the health triangle, which addresses mental, physical and social issues of children after the disasters. These interventions were shown to be effective because children could express their stress. This included play for their mental health, different body movements for their physical health and communication with playworkers and new friends for restructuring their social health. These three aspects relate to and support each other within the health triangle. An increase in childhood obesity and lack of exercise is an additional health issue in Fukushima. For a balanced recovery within the health triangle, more play environments should be provided and some improved. A child’s right to play should be implemented in the recovery stage after a disaster. |
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spelling | pubmed-49287542016-07-12 Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake Kinoshita, Isami Woolley, Helen Children (Basel) Article The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, together with the subsequent tsunami and nuclear power station accident, damaged a wide area of land. Children who experienced these terrible disasters and the post-disaster situation are still suffering in mental, physical and social ways. Children’s play is an activity that they undertake naturally and which can help them recover from such disasters. This paper addresses the role of play, adventure playgrounds and other play interventions, including play buses, for the health triangle, which addresses mental, physical and social issues of children after the disasters. These interventions were shown to be effective because children could express their stress. This included play for their mental health, different body movements for their physical health and communication with playworkers and new friends for restructuring their social health. These three aspects relate to and support each other within the health triangle. An increase in childhood obesity and lack of exercise is an additional health issue in Fukushima. For a balanced recovery within the health triangle, more play environments should be provided and some improved. A child’s right to play should be implemented in the recovery stage after a disaster. MDPI 2015-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4928754/ /pubmed/27417348 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children2010039 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kinoshita, Isami Woolley, Helen Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake |
title | Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake |
title_full | Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake |
title_fullStr | Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake |
title_full_unstemmed | Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake |
title_short | Children’s Play Environment after a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake |
title_sort | children’s play environment after a disaster: the great east japan earthquake |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417348 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children2010039 |
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