Assessing needs in the health after floods and hurricanes

Assessing needs in the health after floods and hurricanes

		Table of contents
		1. Introduction
		2. Critical decisions
		3. Magnitude of the impact
		4. Morbidity and mortality
		5. Environmental sanitation
		6. Vectors
		7. Food and nutritional status
		8. Evacuation camps
		9. The health center
		10. Surveillance systems
		Bibliography

Assessing needs in the health after floods and hurricanes

Technical Paper No. 11

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Pan American Sanitary Bureau

Regional Office of the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.

Washington, DC, 20037, USA

1987

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