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Search within Environmental Disasters

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UNICEF/UN034479/Rugwiza, UN-MINUSTAH
Evidence Reviews

Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health

The effects of armed conflict and natural disasters on global public health are widespread. Much progress has been made in the technical quality, normative coherence, and efficiency of the health care response. But action after the fact remains insufficient. In…
The New England Journal of Medicine
2013
ConflictEnvironmental DisastersHealth
UNICEF/UN047154/Mackenzie
Evidence Reviews

Multiple Shocks, Coping and Welfare Consequences: Natural Disasters and Health Shocks in the Indian Sundarbans

Based on a household survey in Indian Sundarbans hit by tropical cyclone Aila in May 2009, this study tests for evidence and argues that health and climatic shocks are essentially linked forming a continuum and with exposure to a marginal…
PLOS
2014
Environmental DisastersHealthSouth AsiaIndia
UNICEF/UNI43619/Bannon
Background Reports

Famine in the Twentieth Century

More than 70 million people died in famines during the 20th century. This paper compiles excess mortality estimates from over 30 major famines and assess the success of some parts of the world – China, the Soviet Union, and more…
IDS
2000
Environmental DisastersEast and Southern AfricaBangladeshChinaIndia
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