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Review
. 2005 Jun 11;330(7504):1379-81.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7504.1379.

Public health in the aftermath of disasters

Eric K Noji  1
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Review

Public health in the aftermath of disasters

Eric K Noji. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
The Indonesian city of Banda Ache, Sumatra, after the devastating tsunami on 26 December 2004
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Figure 2
Survivors of the tsunami in Meulaboh, Sumatra, crowd around a US Navy helicopter delivering food and water. Helicopter was often the only means of reaching the worst affected regions
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Figure 3
Tents erected to accommodate the local population displaced by a volcanic eruption in Cape Verde. Such mass movement of people into temporary accommodation can pose the greatest threat to life after a disaster: in this case a cholera outbreak developed
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Figure 4
Uniforms of the Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit being sprayed with mosquito repellent in preparation for deployment to Indonesia to help the humanitarian effort. The unit provides water quality testing, bug spraying, and treatment of illnesses in the tsunami survivors
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Figure 5
Nutritional assessment team in refugee camp, Somalia, 1993 (left) and use of Salter scales to determine protein energy malnutrition (“wasting”) in young child (right)
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Figure 5
Nutritional assessment team in refugee camp, Somalia, 1993 (left) and use of Salter scales to determine protein energy malnutrition (“wasting”) in young child (right)
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Figure 7
Emergency health clinic run by Liberian Red Cross for citizens displaced by renewed civil war in downtown Monrovia, Liberia, 1996
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