• Login
    • Library Home
    View Item 
    •   BracU IR
    • BracU Faculty Publications
    • Mohammad Aminur Rahman
    • Article
    • View Item
    •   BracU IR
    • BracU Faculty Publications
    • Mohammad Aminur Rahman
    • Article
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Reducing the health.pdf (261.5Kb)
    Date
    2013-11
    Publisher
    © 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.
    Author
    Rahman, Mohammad Aminur
    Mallick, Fuad Hassan
    Cash, Richard A
    Halder, Shantana R
    Husain, Mushtuq
    Islam, Md Sirajul
    May, Maria A
    Rahman, Mahmudur
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/6223
    Citation
    Cash, R. A., Halder, S. R., Husain, M., Islam, M. S., Mallick, F. H., May, M. A.,Rahman, M. A. (2013). Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh. The Lancet, 382(9910), 2094–2103. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61948-0
    Abstract
    Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity from these events have fallen substantially in the past 50 years, partly because of improvements in disaster management. Thousands of cyclone shelters have been built and government and civil society have mobilised strategies to provide early warning and respond quickly. Increasingly, flood and cyclone interventions have leveraged community resilience, and general activities for poverty reduction have integrated disaster management. Furthermore, overall population health has improved greatly on the basis of successful public health activities, which has helped to mitigate the effect of natural disasters. Challenges to the maintenance and reduction of the effect of cyclones and floods include rapid urbanisation and the growing effect of global warming. Although the effects of earthquakes are unknown, some efforts to prepare for this type of event are underway. This is the fifth in a Series of six papers about innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh
    Keywords
    Disaster management
    Description
    This article was published in the Lancet [©2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61948-0 The article website is at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673613619480
    Publisher Link
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61948-0
    Collections
    • Article
    • Faculty Publications

    Copyright © 2008-2019 Ayesha Abed Library, Brac University 
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
     

     

    Policy Guidelines

    • BracU Policy
    • Publisher Policy

    Browse

    All of BracU Institutional RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Copyright © 2008-2019 Ayesha Abed Library, Brac University 
    Contact Us | Send Feedback