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Author : Josephine N. Malilay
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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Deaths Due to Flash Floods in Puerto Rico, January 1992 written by Josephine N. Malilay and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rico Flash Floods, January 5-6, 1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781568067117
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rico Flash Floods written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the Puerto Rico flash floods was prepared by the Disaster Survey Team after a week of interviews & visits to damaged areas with federal, commonwelath, & local officials in Puerto Rico & citizens who survived the flood's devastation.
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Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IOS Press
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Total Pages : 7289 pages
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Author : Bimal Kanti Paul
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429511973
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Disaster Deaths written by Bimal Kanti Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conducts a systematic inquiry into the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales. It employs key disaster concepts and classification of disasters to understand the high mortality rates and the various factors associated with these deaths. Deaths are the direct and immediate impact of disaster events, which have remained a major concern for disaster managers and policy-makers all over the world. Using primary research and secondary data, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of various facets of disaster deaths such as trends, circumstances and causes, and determinants at global, regional, national, and subnational scales. It offers a holistic perspective on disaster mortality, which has been lacking for some time. The book not only fills this research gap but also suggests important policy implications for disaster managers and policy makers working in multilateral, bilateral, local, and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). These policies include effective strategies to significantly reduce the risk of deaths caused by natural disasters, which are explored through chapters written in a clear and accessible style. Drawing together the case studies on past major disasters as well as recent ones, the book provides new and critical insights into deaths precipitated by natural disasters. Suitable for both technical and nontechnical readers, the book has a broader appeal and will thus be useful for practitioners, researchers, students, as well as activists in the area of hazards and disasters who are interested in studying mortality due to extreme natural events.
Author : Heriberto Torres-Sierra
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Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Flood of January 5-6, 1992, in Puerto Rico written by Heriberto Torres-Sierra and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric K. Noji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199747687
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Public Health Consequences of Disasters written by Eric K. Noji and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural and man-made disasters--earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, industrial crises, and many others--have claimed more than 3 million lives during the past 20 years, adversely affected the lives of at least 800 million people, and caused more than 50 billion dollars in property damages. A major disaster occurs almost daily in some part of the world. Increasing population densities in flood plains, along vulnerable coastal areas, and near dangerous faults in the earth's crust, as well as the rapid industrialization of developing economies are factors likely to make the threat posed by natural disasters much bigger in the future. Illustrated with examples from recent research in the field, this book summarizes the most pertinent and useful information about the public health impact of natural and man-made disasters. It is divided into four sections dealing with general concerns, geophysical events, weather-related problems, and human-generated disasters. The author starts with a comprehensive discussion of the concepts and role of surveillance and epidemiology, highlighting general environmental health concerns, such as sanitation, water, shelter, and sewage. The other chapters, based on a variety of experiences and literature drawn from both developing and industrialized countries, cover discrete types of natural and technological hazards, addressing their history, origin, nature, observation, and control. Throughout the book the focus is on the level of epidemiologic knowledge on each aspect of natural and man-made disasters. Exposure-, disease-, and health-event surveillance are stressed because of the importance of objective data to disaster epidemiology. In addition, Noji pays particular attention to prevention and control measures, and provides practical recommendations in areas in which the public health practitioner needs more useful information. He advocates stronger epidemiologic awareness as the basis for better understanding and control of disasters. A comprehensive theoretical and practical treatment of the subject, The Public Health Consequences of Disasters is an invaluable tool for epidemiologists, disaster relief specialists, and physicians who treat disaster victims.
Author : Roger Few
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136565612
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Flood Hazards and Health written by Roger Few and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts. This book is the first detailed assessment and discussion of the global health implications of flooding and future flood risk. It combines an analysis of the human health impacts of flooding with analysis of individual and societal response to those risks, and sets these findings in light of potential future increases in flood hazard as a result of climate change. Written and edited by leading researchers and practitioners on flood hazards and human health, the volume brings together findings from epidemiological, environmental, social and institutional studies, with analysis rooted in an approach that emphasizes the developmental as well as environmental causes of flood risk, and the socially differentiated nature of vulnerability and coping capacity. The first part of the book sets out the scope of the issues, and provides a detailed discussion of the global health impacts of floods and the nature of human response to the health risks posed. The second part presents new research evidence on specific health aspects of floods covering mental health, infectious diseases, local level responses and the responses of health systems - drawing on case study material from Europe, Africa, Asia and North America, including the impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The conclusion synthesizes insights from the previous chapters and discusses priorities for policy, practice and research. It draws out implications for present and future adaptation to flooding, and emphasizes the need to integrate action on health with the broader agenda of long-term risk reduction. This is indispensable reading for professionals and researchers working on hazard and disaster planning, risk reduction and public health in all countries and contexts.
Author : Trinh, Thi Giao Chi
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3737603642
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Flood-related health risk assessment: a case study in Hoi An City, Quang Nam province, Vietnam written by Trinh, Thi Giao Chi and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooding is one of the most frequent and severe disasters in Hoi An City. The analysis of flood events in Hoi An revealed the impacts of flooding on many aspects of human life in this area including severe health risk. However, through literature review, the research showed that few studies about health risk assessment were performed in Vietnam in general and in Hoi An City specifically. Therefore, assessment of the health risk due to flooding is conducted in this research. The goal of this study is to develop a method to assess human health risk due to flooding with a focus on communicable diseases. It also aims to reduce health risk due to flooding by exploring areas that are most at risk. The methodology consists of (i) creating the health susceptibility map based on the Health Susceptibility Index (HSI); (ii) integration of health susceptibility with exposure information into vulnerability information; (iii) spatial analysis of health risk by the combination between health vulnerability and flood hazard information; (iv) evaluating the research results with the incidence of diseases in reality. The health risk map is the first holistic map of its kind for defining the spatial distribution of risk areas in Hoi An City.
Author : Freddy Vinet
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081023847
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Floods written by Freddy Vinet and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of flood risk seems to be facing a daunting paradox. Despite increasingly effective risk knowledge tools and the efforts of international institutions to place risk reduction at the top of the agenda, the cost of disasters continues to increase. It is also increasingly difficult to avoid the urbanization or development of potential flood zones. The fundamental issue involves determining the conditions necessary for efficient prevention by focusing on adaptability to risk, which implies coping with the risk of flooding rather than directly fighting against it or simply ignoring it. This second volume of the Floods series of books explores existing policies and tools which mitigate the impact of flooding: the construction of protective structures, the reduction of vulnerability, land use planning, the improvement of crisis management, etc. The closing chapters focus on the question of adaptation through post-flood reconstruction, integrating disaster risk reduction measures, e.g. through resilient urbanism. Presents the state-of-the-art surrounding flood issues, from the description of the phenomena, to the management of risk (dikes, dams, reducing vulnerability and management of crisis) Written by specialists, but accessible to mainstream scientists Exposes knowledge, methodologies, scientific locks and the prospects of each discipline on the theme of floods
Author : Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9533079614
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Studies on Water Management Issues written by Muthukrishnavellaisamy Kumarasamy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares knowledge gained through water management related research. It describes a broad range of approaches and technologies, of which have been developed and used by researchers for managing water resource problems. This multidisciplinary book covers water management issues under surface water management, groundwater management, water quality management, and water resource planning management subtopics. The main objective of this book is to enable a better understanding of these perspectives relating to water management practices. This book is expected to be useful to researchers, policy-makers, and non-governmental organizations working on water related projects in countries worldwide.
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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Author : Celine Lutoff
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081028822
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Mobilities Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events 2 written by Celine Lutoff and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilities Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events 2 covers our need to understand how the interaction of hydro-meteorological, social and development dynamics combine to bring improvement to or a worsening of both mobile and immobile exposure. The book provides a summary of the interdisciplinary work done over the past ten years. Residential mobility—the way in which the occupation of flood zones evolves over time—and its resulting immobile exposure are also at the heart of this work. In addition, the book explores how climate change and its relation to fast floods in various regions of the world, especially the Mediterranean, is creating extreme events. Provides a comprehensive understanding of residential and daily mobilities in extreme hydrometeorological situations Updates on mobility adaptation cycles in the face of extreme hydro-meteorological events
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Author : Joseph A. Knight M.D.
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452067228
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book Human Longevity: the Major Determining Factors written by Joseph A. Knight M.D. and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand years ago, the average life expectancy from birth to death of a Roman citizen, an individual better off than most people at that time, was about 22 years (wars, infectious diseases, trauma, etc.). This progressively increased to about 47 years in the U.S. and most European countries by 1900. Today, the average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78 years (women about five years more than men). However, unless the obesity pandemic is reversed and lifestyles improved, the average life expectancy will likely decrease significantly. conversely, if our lifestyles improve, the average life expectancy could reach 85 or more years. Growing older does not necessarily mean growing sicker. Thus, "don't just add years to your life, add life to your years" (Hans Selve). Indeed, of the 15 major causes of death in the U.S., 65-70% are lifestyle-related. In this book, the following documented topics that are associated with diseases and mortality are discussed in detail: theories of aging; diseases and mortality associated with obesity, physical inactivity and poor nutrition; psychological stress (anxiety, depression); addiction (alcohol, tobacco, drugs); violence (suicide, homicide); food-borne and infectious diseases (viral, bacterial, parasitic); and various other conditions (air pollution, asbestosis, trace metals).
Author : Lloyd F. Novick
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763725006
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Public Health Issues in Disaster Preparedness written by Lloyd F. Novick and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Policy & Management
