Revisiting the tsunami: Health consequences of flooding

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0491-0493

  Morgan, Oliver ^a   Ahern, Mike ^a   Cairncross, Sandy ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ANXIETY; CHOLERA; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISASTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSENTERY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EYE INFECTION; FECES; FLOODING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOSE INFECTION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHARYNGITIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SANITATION; SHORT SURVEY; TETANUS; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER TREATMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WOUND INFECTION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; MALARIA; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AFRICA; ASIA; DIARRHEA; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALARIA; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION;

EID: 22144494184     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020184     Document Type: Short Survey

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