ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2014
Managing the health impacts of drought in Brazil.
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- Evaluating Changes in Health Risk from Drought over the Contiguous United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Effects of Drought on Mortality in Macro Urban Areas of Brazil Between 2000 and 2019.GeoHealth · 2022Article
- A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s.Population and environment · 2022Article
- The Effects of Drought Severity and Its Aftereffects on Mortality in Bangladesh.Yonago acta medica · 2021Article
- Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Health Vulnerability to Drought in the Brazilian Semiarid Region.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- An epidemiological index for drought vulnerability in the Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil.International journal of biometeorology · 2021Article
- When Land Is Under Pressure Health Is Under Stress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Health consequences of drought in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: hotspot areas and needed actions.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Article
- Extremes in water availability and suicide: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of rural Indian adults.Environmental research · 2020Article
- Impact of desertification and land degradation on Colombian children.International journal of public health · 2019Article
- Drought in the Semiarid Region of Brazil: Exposure, Vulnerabilities and Health Impacts from the Perspectives of Local Actors.PLoS currents · 2018Article
- Indicators to measure risk of disaster associated with drought: Implications for the health sector.PloS one · 2017Article
- Climate Change, Drought and Human Health in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Review
- Health system strategies for adaptation to drought: A global scoping review.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
Drought is often a hidden risk with the potential to become a silent public health disaster. It is difficult to define precisely when it starts or when it is over, and although it is a climatological event, its impacts depend on other human activities, and are intensified by social vulnerability. In Brazil, half of all natural disaster events are drought related, and they cause half of the impacts in number of affected persons. One large affected area is the semiarid region of Brazil's Northeast, which has historically been affected by drought. Many health and well-being indicators in this region are worse than the rest of the country, based on an analysis of 5565 municipalities using available census data for 1991, 2000 and 2010, which allowed separating the 1133 municipalities affected by drought in order to compare them with the rest of the country. Although great progress has been made in reducing social and economic vulnerability, climate change and the expected changes in the semiarid region in the next few decades call for a review of current programs, particularly in public health, and the planning of new interventions with local communities. This study reviews the literature, analyzes available data and identifies possible actions and actors. The aim is to ensure there will be sufficient and sustainable local adaptive capacity and resilience, for a population already living within the limits of environmental vulnerability.
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