Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management

Introduction. Currently, there is a steadily increasing trend in losses due to flooding. Nevertheless, global warming, followed by an inevitable overuse of river valleys might further contribute to an increase in the frequency and destructive power of floods. It is quite important to trace the cause...

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Autores principales:	Vasile DUMITRAS, Sergiu CÎRLAN, Andrei MARFIN, Catalina CROITORU, Elena CIOBANU
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Publicado:	Asociatia de Biosiguranta si Biosecuritate 2020
Materias:	flood calamities victims medical management Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e5c476ccf42346ff9dbc898c4774ffc02021-12-02T10:37:31ZMedical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management10.38045/ohrm.2020.1.012887-34582587-3466https://doaj.org/article/e5c476ccf42346ff9dbc898c4774ffc02020-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journal.ohrm.bba.md/index.php/journal-ohrm-bba-md/article/view/36/22https://doaj.org/toc/2887-3458https://doaj.org/toc/2587-3466Introduction. Currently, there is a steadily increasing trend in losses due to flooding. Nevertheless, global warming, followed by an inevitable overuse of river valleys might further contribute to an increase in the frequency and destructive power of floods. It is quite important to trace the cause and effect chain of the economic, social and ecological impacts during the flood hazard. Material and methods. A bibliographic research was carried out by using historical and descriptive methods based on the keywords, underlining the medical, social and economic significance of the present issue. Results. There are 57 natural lakes and about 3 400 artificial water reservoirs found on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, including 90 amounting to over 1 million m3 per each. The accumulation basins help in preventing and combating overflows and flooding during spring and summer periods. Most of the dams do not comply with the technical norms, as they do not have channels of respite and drainage, thus, a dam failure on top dike might generate the collapse of the others at the lower watercourse, resulting in disastrous consequences. Therefore, individual health protection measures and appropriate population behavior are vitally important in catastrophic floods. Conclusions. Over the last decades, the floods occurring in the Republic of Moldova have conditioned the need to increase interventions for the prevention and reduction of both economic and human losses both at national and international levels.Vasile DUMITRASSergiu CÎRLANAndrei MARFINCatalina CROITORUElena CIOBANUAsociatia de Biosiguranta si Biosecuritatearticlefloodcalamitiesvictimsmedical managementMedicineRScienceQENFRRORUOne Health & Risk Management, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 72-79 (2020)
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description	Introduction. Currently, there is a steadily increasing trend in losses due to flooding. Nevertheless, global warming, followed by an inevitable overuse of river valleys might further contribute to an increase in the frequency and destructive power of floods. It is quite important to trace the cause and effect chain of the economic, social and ecological impacts during the flood hazard. Material and methods. A bibliographic research was carried out by using historical and descriptive methods based on the keywords, underlining the medical, social and economic significance of the present issue. Results. There are 57 natural lakes and about 3 400 artificial water reservoirs found on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, including 90 amounting to over 1 million m3 per each. The accumulation basins help in preventing and combating overflows and flooding during spring and summer periods. Most of the dams do not comply with the technical norms, as they do not have channels of respite and drainage, thus, a dam failure on top dike might generate the collapse of the others at the lower watercourse, resulting in disastrous consequences. Therefore, individual health protection measures and appropriate population behavior are vitally important in catastrophic floods. Conclusions. Over the last decades, the floods occurring in the Republic of Moldova have conditioned the need to increase interventions for the prevention and reduction of both economic and human losses both at national and international levels.
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author	Vasile DUMITRAS Sergiu CÎRLAN Andrei MARFIN Catalina CROITORU Elena CIOBANU
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title	Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management
title_short	Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management
title_full	Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management
title_fullStr	Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management
title_full_unstemmed	Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management
title_sort	medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management
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Medical and social aspects of floods and their medical risk management

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