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Flooding and human health.
Over the past few weeks England and Wales have endured the most widespread flooding for more than 50 years. By the end of the first week of November more than 3000 homes had been flooded and transport had been disrupted; in some areas water supplies have been contaminated, and a hospital has been evacuated. Flooding accounts for 40% of all natural disasters worldwide and causes about half of al...
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Child health as one of the main indicators of economic development has been included directly in the millennium development goals. Due to the increased rate of mothers' employment and education along with children malnutrition, the effect of mothers’ socioeconomic status on children’s health was examined in this study. In case study, data on children at birth were gathered from heal...
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0491 The South Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004 was one of the largest fl ooding disasters in recent history (Figure 1), causing about 280,000 fatalities in eight countries stretching from Asia to Africa [1]. Shortly after the disaster, the World Health Organization warned that disease could claim as many lives as the tsunami itself [2]. Early-warning communicable disease surveillance systems ...
متن کاملHealth effects of flooding in rural Bangladesh.
BACKGROUND There is little information available on nontraumatic health risks as the result of floods, and on the factors that determine vulnerability to them (especially in low-income settings). We estimated the pattern of mortality, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection following the 2004 floods in rural Bangladesh. METHODS We conducted controlled interrupted time-series analysis of adv...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ISEE Conference Abstracts
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1078-0475
DOI: 10.1289/isee.2020.virtual.o-sy-2513