Asthma in Disaster Zones

Disaster Management and Identification of Safe and Hazardous Landslide Zones in Rural Areas of Sarwabad County

Iran's rural settlements, in spite of their comprehensive and multi-faceted developments in the last decades, are still considered to be among the settlements faced with crucial challenges in the face of environmental hazards. As a result, prearrangement for upcoming events and disasters, as well as paying attention to the management of rural disaster in dealing with particularly natural events...

World Trade Center Disaster and Asthma Type

Asthma exacerbations after the East Japan Disaster.

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck east Japan, following tsunami. Many people are forced to live in evacuation shelters without enough life-saving drugs. Asthma control for management of health crisis is required, because asthma exacerbation is a major cause of morbidity, can need acute care and results in death. However, it remains obscure what parameter should be used in pri...

Airway smooth muscle in asthma: flirting with disaster.

Airway hyperresponsiveness is the excessive narrowing of the airway lumen caused by stimuli that would cause little or no narrowing in the normal individual. It is one of the cardinal features of asthma but remains largely unexplained. Sometimes, though, clues to the greatest mysteries are right in front of us but we do not see them, and the role of breathing in airway hyperresponsiveness may b...

Burden of musculoskeletal disease and nonbattle nontraumatic injury in both war and disaster zones.

Disasters, both man-made and natural, are a known cause of morbidity and mortality among vulnerable populations. The initial phase of public health response typically addresses immediate traumatic injury or death in the wake of a disaster. However, little is known about the magnitude and cost of subsequent nontraumatic injury and illness in disaster zones. Known as ``the hidden epidemic,'' the ...