POST DISASTER EPIDEMICS: POSSIBILITIES AND PREVENTION
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 7
Abstract
The relationship between natural disaster and diseases followed afterwards is misconstrued. The risk for outbreaks in the aftermath is often overemphasized by health officials and media leading to panic, confusion and sometimes irrelevant public activities. The fear is derived from association be-tween corpses and epidemics. However, the risk factors for outbreaks after disasters are associated primarily with population displacement. The availability of safe water and sanitation facilities, the degree of crowding, underlying health status of the population and the availability of health care services all interact in relation to local disease ecology to influence the risk for communicable dis-eases and death in affected population. This comprehensive review aims at describing potential in-fectious and communicable diseases after natural disasters and summarizing risk, prevention and control measures to be considered with preparedness and prior assessment.
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Neena Kumar, Rashmi Saini
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