The public health impact of hurricanes and major flooding.
The public health impact of hurricanes and major flooding.
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飓风和重大洪水对公共卫生的影响。
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2004
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J. Diaz
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J. Diaz
飓风相关洪水与人类健康之间缺乏剂量 - 反应关系，以及气候变化和飓风登陆的气象模型不精确且常常相互矛盾，这些都阻碍了对飓风和大洪水对公共健康影响的准确预测。洪水现在是全球最常见的灾害类型，而通常与热带风暴有关的暴洪是美国与天气相关的死亡的首要原因。由于气候变化以及更频繁交替的海洋振荡，现在3级或更高级别的飓风大约每18个月就会袭击美国大陆。公共卫生官员有义务就全球气候变化的无情进展（包括更多以水为中心的灾害，如热带风暴和飓风）对人口健康和生活质量构成的重大威胁对政策制定者和公众进行教育。
Accurate predictions of the public health impact of hurricanes and major flooding are hampered by the absence of a dose-response relationship between hurricane-associated flooding and human health and the imprecise, often conflicting, meteorological models of climate change and hurricane landfall. Flooding is now the most common type of disaster worldwide, and flash flooding, usually associated with tropical storms, is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States. As a result of climate changes and more frequently alternating ocean oscillations, hurricanes of category 3 or greater now strike the continental US approximately every 18 months. Public health officials are obligated to educate policymakers and the public about the significant threats posed to population health and quality of life by the inexorable progression of global climate change, including more water-centered disasters, such as tropical storms and hurricanes.