- Author
- Gregg, M. B. | French, J. F. | Binder, S. | Sanderson, L. M.
- Title
- Public Health Consequences of Disasters, 1989.
- Coporate
- Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- public awareness | disasters | accidents | earthquakes | survival | air pollution | mortality | nuclear power plants | weather effects
- Identifiers
- public health; preventive medicine; volcanoes; hurricanes; tornadoes; diseases; cold weather; floods; food supply; epidemiology; morbidity; famine
- Abstract
- The Center for Disease Control (CDC) wrote the monograph to describe the public health impact of major catastrophies. The contents of the report are divided into several major sectons: General concerns, Geophysical events, Weather-related problems, and Human-generated problems. The first chapter, a kind of primer, describes the concepts and role of surveillance and epidemiology - the database for and the science of public health practice, respectively. The second chapter very briefly discusses some important considerations relating to communications efforts between health officials and the news media in times of disaster. The last chapter in the section address communicable disease control following natural disasters. The other chapters cover discrete types of dissters.