Global health impacts of floods: epidemiologic evidence.

By M. Ahern, R. Kovats, P. Wilkinson, R. Few, F. Matthies. Epidemiologic Reviews, 2005

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Robert L. Wilby
2. R. T. Barrett
3. Eric Tate
4. P. Hoekstra
5. G. Gabrielsen
6. M. Mallory

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. R. Kovats
2. J. Desforges
3. B. Festy

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment (2007, background): “(Sources: Wilby and Perry, 2006 and Handley, 2004) a) b) 38 BUILT ENVIRONMENT VOL 33 NO 1 water flooding, or risks to human health such as diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases (Ahern et al., 2005).”
• Climate change and human health: impacts, vulnerability and public health. (2006, background): “Natural disasters have a variety of health impacts.(3,26) These range from immediate effects of physical injury and morbidity and mortality through to potentially long lasting effects on mental health.”
• Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation. (2016, background): “eases) in Central and South America and South Asia (Ahern et al., 2005; Confalonieri, 2003; Ko et al., 1999).”
• Social vulnerability to floods: Review of case studies and implications for measurement (2015, background): “Approximately one-third of all deaths during flood events occur away from floodwaters, however, and are the result of dehydration, stroke, lack of medical supplies [59], and health issues that are often overlooked prior to flood events [4,6].”
• Current state of knowledge on biological effects from contaminants on arctic wildlife and fish (2019, background): “Extreme weather events linked to climate change have also been tied to outbreaks of zoonotic disease (Ahern et al., 2005).”
• Leptospirosis in Humans (2015, neutral): “The recognition of large outbreaks following excess rainfall events (Ahern et al. 2005; Dechet et al. 2012; Ko et al. 1999; Zaki and Shieh 1996) led to the labeling of leptospirosis as an emerging infectious disease two decades ago (Levett 1999).”