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dc.contributor.authorMallick, Fuad Hassan
dc.contributor.authorCash, Richard A
dc.contributor.authorHalder, Shantana R
dc.contributor.authorHusain, Mushtuq
dc.contributor.authorIslam, Md Sirajul
dc.contributor.authorMay, Maria A
dc.contributor.authorRahman, Mahmudur
dc.contributor.authorRahman, M Aminur
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-28T08:58:14Z
dc.date.available2016-08-28T08:58:14Z
dc.date.issued2013-11
dc.identifier.citationCash, 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)61948-0en_US
dc.identifier.issn0140-6736
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10361/6220
dc.descriptionThis 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/S0140673613619480en_US
dc.description.abstractBangladesh, 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 Bangladeshen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61948-0
dc.subjectDisaster managementen_US
dc.titleReducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladeshen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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