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Health Effects of Drought: a Systematic Review of the …

WEBINTRODUCTION. Reflecting awareness of the realities of climate change and the need to manage its wide-ranging effects 1, there is currently great international interest by emergency coordinators and …

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URL: https://currents.plos.org/disasters/article/dis-13-0001-health-effects-of-drought-a-systematic-review-of-the-evidence/

Health Impacts of Wildfires – PLOS Currents Disasters

WEBHealth threats and the Source-Pathway-Receptor model. This is a model of the means by which wildfires and health concerns can be explored further (see below). Toxicology of wildfire smoke. Some …

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Application of Behavioral Theories to Disaster and Emergency …

WEBThe Health Belief Model (HBM), Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Social Cognitive Theories were most commonly …

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A Systematic Review of the Health Impacts of Mass Earth …

WEBThe Psychosocial and Mental Health Impacts. The nine papers relating to the psychosocial and mental health impacts of landslides that were discovered through …

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The Effects of Flooding on Mental Health: Outcomes and …

WEBThe New Horizons policy states that mental health problems are common as are mental disorders that spring from environmental as well as physical and social …

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A Framework and Methodology for Navigating Disaster and …

WEBFor global health, disasters and crisis, the taxonomy should reflect health issues, health systems, disaster and crisis event types, and study disciplines that focus on these …

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Power Outages, Extreme Events and Health: a Systematic Review …

WEBThe literature review: health impacts of power outages during extreme events. Of the initial 125 papers identified through the keyword search, 8 duplicates were removed and 91 …

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Developing a Health System Approach to Disaster Management: A

WEBHealth agencies at the highest level need to be able to coordinate with other agencies, collaborate with other countries, communicate effectively amongst themselves and with …

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A Health System Approach to All-Hazards Disaster Management: A

WEB• The World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on this issue in 2011 1 with the aim to promote a health systems approach to disaster management to build resilience in the …

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Prioritization of Themes and Research Questions for Health …

WEBConclusions. Identifying priorities for research in any area is a demanding and complex task. This is particularly true in the disaster context where the range of evidence needed …

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Quality of Life of Persons Injured on 9/11: Qualitative Analysis …

WEBAs shown in previous studies on 9/11 survivors enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry, long-term physical and mental health problems were common. 1, 5, 8, 17, 18 …

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Vaccine Hesitancy: Clarifying a Theoretical Framework for an …

WEBRelated Articles. The article is part of the PLOS Currents Outbreaks “Vaccine Hesitancy Collection“.. Introduction. Today, according to many public health experts, public …

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Development and Implementation of the World Health …

WEBAs with many health professionals, rehabilitation providers have historically responded as individuals or in ad hoc groups with varying collaboration with the affected …

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Reducing Disaster Exacerbated Non-Communicable Diseases …

WEBPublic health service infrastructure (PHI) descriptors. The interviews and focus group identified 130 different descriptors of PHI, which were grouped into 14 themes (Table 2). …

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Health Consequences of Typhoon Haiyan in the Eastern Visayas …

WEBThe Health Emergency Management Bureau (HEMB) of the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) activated the Surveillance in Post Extreme Emergencies and Disasters …

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The Enduring Health Challenges of Afghan Immigrants and …

WEBAccess to Health Services. Refugees have special health needs. Their fragile situation which arises from the experiences they had in their homeland and difficulties they may …

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Immediate Needs and Concerns among Pregnant Women During …

WEBThis information should be provided by health personnel during provision of healthcare services such as prenatal care or immunization activities. 31, 33. Pregnant women faced …

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Coordinating the Provision of Health Services in Humanitarian …

WEBThere is evidence of lack of coordination between organizations providing health services in public health emergencies. 4, 6 For example, the lack of coordination between …

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Teacher-Mediated Interventions to Support Child Mental Health …

WEBGraetz, B., et al., KidsMatter: A Population Health Model to Support Student Mental Health and Well-Being in Primary Schools. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, …

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Health Information Needs and Health Seeking Behavior During …

WEBIntroduction. The 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak was the most pervasive in history, reaching epidemic proportions 1.The outbreak was marked with 11,325 fatalities, 28,652 reported cases and uncontrolled spread 2.It was further characterized as an epidemic of fear and anxiety, when case identification reached the US and Europe 3.In …

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A Research Agenda for Humanitarian Health Ethics

WEBThis paper maps key research questions for humanitarian health ethics: the ethical dimensions of healthcare provision and public health activities during international …

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Socio-demographic Predictors for Urban Community Disaster …

WEBEmily YY Chan Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), JC School of Public Health and Primary …

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