Global Health Impacts of Floods: Epidemiologic Evidence
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1478-6729,0193-936X
DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxi004