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Descriptor English: Health Effects of Disasters
Descriptor Spanish: Efectos de Desastres en la Salud
Descriptor efectos de los desastres en la salud
Scope note: Este término se refiere exclusivamente a las enfermedades no transmisibles y comprende los efectos sobre la salud de las radiaciones, cenizas volcánicas, contaminación del aire, calidad del aire, contaminación del agua, accidentes industriales y problemas relacionados con el estrés con manifestaciones físicas a corto o largo plazo (infarto de miocardio, aborto espontáneo). Excluye la contaminación del agua por patógenos, los problemas de saneamiento, las zoonosis y los vectores invertebrados y roedores portadores de enfermedades.
Descriptor Portuguese: Efeitos de Desastres na Saúde
Descriptor French: Effets des Catastrophes sur la Santé
Tree number(s): SP8.665.380
Scope note: The term deals exclusively with non-communicable diseases; includes health effects of radiation and volcanic ash, air pollution control, air quality, water pollution and industrial accidents, stress-related problems that have physical manifestations of developing short or prolonged (heart attacks, miscarriages). It excludes water, pathogen contamination, sanitation, zoonoses, invertebrate vectors and rodents that carry diseases.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
SN statistics & numerical data
DeCS ID: 22769
Unique ID: DDCS022769
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Health Effects of Disasters - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057896
Scope note The term deals exclusively with non-communicable diseases; includes health effects of radiation and volcanic ash, air pollution control, air quality, water pollution and industrial accidents, stress-related problems that have physical manifestations of developing short or prolonged (heart attacks, miscarriages). It excludes water, pathogen contamination, sanitation, zoonoses, invertebrate vectors and rodents that carry diseases.
Preferred term Health Effects of Disasters



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