Health effects of natural disasters

Abstract

Natural hazards have a number of adverse effects - they affect the life and health of humans and the survival of other living beings, destroy material goods and deteriorate socio-economic conditions of life. Without neglecting the impact of natural hazards lower intensity, in this paper emphasis is placed on natural hazards with the strongest effects for human health, that is to natural disasters. It covered the impact of various natural disasters on mortality and morbidity during and immediately after natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods and drought, which is to characterize on the Republic of Serbia.

Prirodne nepogode imaju brojne štetne efekte - utiču na život i zdravlje čoveka i na opstanak drugih živih bića, uništavaju materijalna dobra i pogoršavaju socioekonomske uslove života. Ne zanemarujući uticaj prirodnih nepogoda slabijeg intenziteta, u radu je stavljen akcenat na prirodne nepogode sa najjačim efektima po život i zdravlje ljudi, tj. na prirodne katastrofe. Obrađen je uticaj različitih prirodnih katastrofa na mortalitet i morbiditet za vreme i neposredno nakon prirodnih katastrofa, i to zemljotresa, poplava i suše, odnosno onih koji su karakteristični za prostor Srbije.