@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00025577, author = {Nishikiori, Nobuyuki and Abe, Tomoko and Costa, Dehiwala G M and Dharmaratne, Samath D and Kunii, Osamu and Moji, Kazuhiko}, issue = {7537}, journal = {BMJ : British medical journal}, month = {Feb}, note = {Objective: To describe the distribution of mortality among internally displaced persons during two and a half months after the Indian Ocean tsunami, 2004./ Design: Cross sectional household survey with retrospective cohort analysis of mortality./ Setting: Camps for internally displaced persons due to the tsunami in an eastern coastal district of Sri Lanka./ Participants: 3533 people from 859 households accommodated in 13 camps./ Main outcome measures: All cause death and number of missing people./ Results: 446 deaths and 11 missing people were reported after the 2004 tsunami, of which most (99%) occurred on the day of the tsunami or within three days thereafter. No deaths were reported for the two and a half month period starting one week after the tsunami./ Conclusions: Most mortality after the 2004 tsunami occurred within the first few days of the disaster and was low in the study area., BMJ. 2006 February 11; 332(7537): 334-335.}, pages = {334--335}, title = {Timing of mortality among internally displaced persons due to the tsunami in Sri Lanka: cross sectional household survey}, volume = {332}, year = {2006} }