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Post‐disaster behavior of some communicable diseases
Author(s) -
Gomez Ney Guzman,
Sarmiento Ninfa
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1987.tb00642.x
Subject(s) - environmental health , natural disaster , poison control , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , medical emergency , communicable disease , non communicable disease , public health , geography , nursing , pathology , meteorology
The surveillance of communicable diseases after a natural disaster reflects the permanent state of effectiveness of the health services and the adverse factors of the natural, physical and family environments. Diarrhoeal diseases may be the best indicator of a community's period of recovery. The return of these diseases to endemic levels means that the pre‐disaster situation has been reestablished.