Health Impacts of Floods
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Global health impacts of floods: epidemiologic evidence.
Floods are the most common natural disaster in both developed and developing countries, and they are occasionally of devastating impact, as the floods in China in 1959 and Bangladesh in 1974 and the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December 2004 show (1). Their impacts on health vary between populations for reasons relating to population vulnerability and type of flood event (2–5). Under future cli...
متن کاملPublic health impacts of floods and chemical contamination.
INTRODUCTION Flooding accounts for about 40 per cent of all natural disasters that occur worldwide. In 2002-2003 many counties in England experienced severe floods. Floods are particularly important in public health terms as they may have multiple environmental consequences. METHODS Details of floods reported to Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, London [CHaPD(L)] were analysed and a lite...
متن کاملHealth impacts of large-scale floods: governmental decision-making and resilience of the citizens.
During the 15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Amsterdam, May 2007 (15WCDEM), a targeted agenda program (TAP) about the public health aspects of large-scale floods was organized. The main goal of the TAP was the establishment of an overview of issues that would help governmental decision-makers to develop policies to increase the resilience of the citizens during floods. D...
متن کاملAssessment of the health impacts of the 2011 summer floods in Brisbane.
OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of the 2011 floods in Brisbane, Australia, on residents' physical and mental health. METHODS Residents who had been affected by the floods completed a community-based survey that examined the direct impact of flooding on households and their perceived physical and mental health. Outcome variables included overall and respiratory health and mental health outcome...
متن کاملA Summary Case Report on the Health Impacts and Response to the Pakistan Floods of 2010
In July 2010, Pakistan suffered nationwide floods after unprecedented monsoon rains overwhelmed the Indus basin. The ensuing floods claimed 1985 lives, injured 2946 people and affected over 20.2 million people. Seventy-eight out of 121 districts were affected and at one stage one-fifth of the country's land was inundated with water. Indiscriminate damage was caused to housing, educational and h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x11000148