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Global Health Impacts of Floods: Epidemiologic Evidence
1 Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
2 School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
3 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Correspondence to Mike Ahern, Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom (e-mail: mike.ahern@lshtm.ac.uk).
Received for publication September 13, 2004; accepted for publication January 25, 2005.
CI, confidence interval • PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder • RR, relative risk
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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 climate change, altered patterns of precipitation and sea level rise are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of floods in many regions of the world (6). In this paper, we review the epidemiologic evidence of flood-related health impacts. The specific objectives were as follows:- to summarize and critically appraise evidence of published studies, covering flood events in all regions of the world, and
- to identify knowledge gaps relevant to the reduction of public health impacts.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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We developed a search algorithm to identify
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RESULTS |
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Mortality
Injuries
Fecal-oral disease
Vector-borne disease
Rodent-borne disease
Mental health
Common mental disorder (anxiety, depression). Posttraumatic stress disorder. Suicide. Other health outcomes
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