Floods : an environmental health practitioner's emergency management guide.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: National Environmental Health Forum monographs. Counter disaster series ; no. 1Publication details: Adelaide : National Environmental Health Forum, 1999Description: vii, 51 p. : illISBN:

0730890147 (pbk)

DDC classification:

363.349383 21

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Subject: The objective of this publication is to define the responsibilities and roles of environmental health practitioners within the overall response operation in order to minimise the effects of a flood disaster on the public. In a disaster the aim is to provide accurate and timely advice and to co-ordinate resources so that the public health of disaster affected people is protected and maintained. The desired outcome of achieving the above objectives is to prevent unnecessary morbidity, mortality, and economic loss that can result from a flood

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Bibliography: p. 41-42

Assessment of a flood disaster -- Communications and the media -- Safety of water supplies -- Food supply -- Waste collection and disposal -- Hazardous wastes: chemical, biological and radiological -- Sewage disposal -- Control of vectors and vermin -- Disease control -- Emergency shelter and housing -- Disposal of dead animals -- Personal hygiene -- Human remains -- General public health

The objective of this publication is to define the responsibilities and roles of environmental health practitioners within the overall response operation in order to minimise the effects of a flood disaster on the public. In a disaster the aim is to provide accurate and timely advice and to co-ordinate resources so that the public health of disaster affected people is protected and maintained. The desired outcome of achieving the above objectives is to prevent unnecessary morbidity, mortality, and economic loss that can result from a flood

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