Abstract
This study combined and analysed data from different sources to examine the impact of earthquake housing damage on cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related hospital admissions and deaths in the five years following the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
There are significant links between the level of earthquake damage to property in an area and the number of CVD-related hospitalisations and deaths among residents in that area.
This highlights the need to consider CVD prevention in planning and policy around natural disaster preparedness, resilience and recovery.