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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Health disasters"”.
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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
… and pragmatic intersections between public health ethics and the emerging discourse on disaster bioethics as public health disasters. This concept reflects public health issues with calamitous or devastating social consequences such as infectious disease outbreaks, the attendant public …
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Contextualised framework for healthy disaster risk reduction in socio-economically disadvantaged rural–based schools of Thulamela Municipality
Natural phenomena such as health disasters pose significant threats to all aspects of human life. Children and youth, particularly from socio-economically disadvantaged groups are the most vulnerable groups that directly or indirectly suffer the consequences of disasters when they occur. The recent …
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Framing public health disaster : Chinese newspaper coverage of the contaminated milk powder affair
… might affect the news framing of public health disasters. Specifically, it examines the coverage of the 2008 Chinese milk disaster in four different types of Chinese newspapers. The four newspapers are selected according to their different news environment, which is measured by the level …
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Analysis and design of an in-pipe system for water leak detection
… water supply. The possibility of environmental health disasters due to delay in detection of water pipeline leaks have spurred research into the development of methods for pipeline leak and contamination detection. This thesis is on the analysis and design of a floating mobile sensor for leak …
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Demonstrating Long-Term Primary Care Need For Medically Vulnerable Populations Post-Disaster
<p> Introduction: Environmental Public Health Disasters (EPHD) generate increased demand for primary care services after initial surge (i.e., "secondary surges") that overwhelm the local health system. There is a current gap in the literature examining a disaster's impact on long-term health care …