Adequate planning is vital to minimize the health effects of floods: using a wide, multisectoral, all-hazards approach to emergency preparedness in developing local plans that include public health and primary care. They collected information through a questionnaire sent to Member States, and from a systematic review of epidemiological articles and research on the global impact of flooding on health. Health topics Environment and health Climate change How flooding affects health.
How flooding affects health. Emergency preparedness for flooding Adequate planning is vital to minimize the health effects of floods: using a wide, multisectoral, all-hazards approach to emergency preparedness in developing local plans that include public health and primary care.
Political implications: Ineffective response to relief operations during major flood events may lead to public discontent or loss of trust in the authorities or the state and national governments.
Lack of development in flood-prone areas may cause social inequity and even social unrest posing threat to peace and stability in the region. Environmental Aspects of Integrated Flood Management. Facebook Twitter Linkedin. What are the negative social impacts of flooding?
Some of these factors are shown below; Loss of lives and property: Immediate impacts of flooding include loss of human life, damage to property, destruction of crops, loss of livestock, non-functioning of infrastructure facilities and deterioration of health condition owing to waterborne diseases.
Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Flooding causes severe damage, disrupts economic processes and causes a food shortage. Consequences of flooding on property value will cause areas who continue to have flooding problems to have a decrease in real estate value. There will be areas that are more prone to flooding issues.
The flood problems in these areas increase the already degraded state of their environment. Flooding impact, especially in urban areas, is enormous. People may have to get stranded during the commute and get stuck for hours. The flood destruction in cities disrupts business, commerce, and tourism. Flooding causes and effects have far-reaching consequences. There are times of the year where floods are more likely to occur due to hurricanes and typhoons. What are social impacts?
Flooding issues include families being displaced resulting in trauma. Mental health professionals should be part of the emergency response team to help people deal with the consequences of the loss of property and loved ones.
Long term challenges may include having to deal with the loss of livelihood and property. Individuals affected need to rebuild their lives and possessions. Government help is needed in disseminating aid and repairing structures that can help a community recover. The environment can get severely devastated from a flood. Flood is mainly dirty water that carries waterborne diseases and possibly chemicals that can affect the quality of soil in the environment.
The water supply in an area may get polluted from flood water resulting in diseases and epidemic. How does flooding affect rivers? When there is too much rainwater especially after seasonal rainfalls the water in the river overflows and travels to the surrounding land or area. Places near rivers and bodies of water are always at risk of floods.
How do floods affect animals? Primary determinants of flood-related death include: lack of warning, inability to reach shelter, building collapse, water depth, rapid rise in water level, water flow velocity, children, and elderly. Applies a new method for estimating loss of life due to floods based on flood characteristics and numbers exposed and mortality among exposed are introduced.
FitzGerald, 50 Review of flood fatalities in Australia from to Estimated 73 flood-related deaths reported from newspapers and historic accounts from to in Australia. Most fatalities occurred in the summer months. No difference decline in deaths over time reported. Reporting of flood events by source and year. Flood events affecting human populations by year. Discussion Main findings In the past 30 years approximately 2. Limitations The effects of flood events are the subject of gross approximations and aggregations that have a great deal of imprecision.
Conclusions Interpretation of flood fatality data is challenging given the occurrence of occasional extreme events, temporal trends and the completeness and accuracy of available data. Competing Interest The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. References 1.
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