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Floods are often caused by heavy rainfall, rapid snowmelt or a storm surge from a tropical cyclone or tsunami in coastal areas. Floods can cause widespread devastation, resulting in loss of life and damages to personal property and critical public health infrastructure. Between 1998-2017, floods affected more than 2 billion people worldwide.
Protect your health during a flood by: Knowing your community’s evacuation route and warning signals, and identifying areas prone to flooding or landslides. Chlorinating or boiling all water for drinking and food preparation. Ensuring uninterrupted provision of safe drinking water is the most important preventive measure to be implemented ...
Drowning is one of the top 5 causes of death for people aged 1–14 years for 48 of 85 countries with data meeting inclusion criteria (1). Australia: drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death in children aged 1–3 years. Bangladesh: drowning accounts for 43% of all deaths in children aged 1–4 years.
Oceanographic Centre, UK Space Agency, and the Flood Forecasting Centre). Further inputs have been provided by the World Meteorological Organization and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. These definitions provide a reference for further progress on a shared understanding of definitions of natural hazards and extreme
Drought is a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world. It is a slow-onset disaster characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage. Drought can have a serious impact on health, agriculture, economies, energy and the environment. An estimated 55 million people globally are ...
Landslides. Landslides are more widespread than any other geological event, and can occur anywhere in the world. They occur when large masses of soil, rocks or debris move down a slope due to a natural phenomenon or human activity. Mudslides or debris flows are also a common type of fast-moving landslide. Landslides can accompany heavy rains or ...
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring large-scale climatic phenomenon involving fluctuating ocean temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, coupled with changes in the overlying atmosphere. El Niño and La Niña are the oceanic components, while the Southern Oscillation is the atmospheric counterpart ...
Tropical Cyclones. Tropical cyclones, also known as typhoons or hurricanes, are among the most destructive weather phenomena. They are intense circular storms that originate over warm tropical oceans, and have maximum sustained wind speeds exceeding 119 kilometres per hour and heavy rains. However, the greatest damage to life and property is ...
About us. A WHO field staff talks to a woman fetching water from a water catchment tank in Kiribati. Singapore contributes to regional health emergency readiness through achieving Emergency Medical Team classification. Parliamentarians call for strengthening health workforce in the Asia Pacific. WHO calls on Pacific leaders to make health and ...
Rabies is a serious public health problem in over 150 countries and territories, mainly in Asia and Africa. It is a viral, zoonotic, neglected tropical disease that causes tens of thousands of deaths annually, with 40% being children under 15. Dog bites and scratches cause 99% of the human rabies cases, and can be prevented through dog ...