| Descriptor English: | Disaster Vulnerability | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Vulnerabilidad ante Desastres
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Vulnerabilidade a Desastres | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Vulnérabilité Aux Catastrophes | ||||||
| Entry term(s): |
Catastrophe Vulnerability Vulnerability |
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| Tree number(s): |
SP8.950 |
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| Scope note: | Likelihood of a particular community or geographic area being affected by a potential threat or risk of disaster, established from technical studies, which build up relations between the intensity of the resulting damage and the magnitude of a threat, adverse event or accident. (Material III - Brazil, Ministry of Social Action, 1992). |
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| Allowable Qualifiers: |
EC economics EH ethnology HI history SN statistics & numerical data |
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| DeCS ID: | 34666 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | DDCS034666 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents |
Disaster Vulnerability
- Preferred
| Concept UI |
M06142131 |
| Scope note | Likelihood of a particular community or geographic area being affected by a potential threat or risk of disaster, established from technical studies, which build up relations between the intensity of the resulting damage and the magnitude of a threat, adverse event or accident. (Material III - Brazil, Ministry of Social Action, 1992). |
| Preferred term | Disaster Vulnerability |
| Entry term(s) |
Catastrophe Vulnerability Vulnerability |
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