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# Floods: Health Information Guide

## Overview

                    - Floods  	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
                    - Flooding  	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                    - Flooding  	National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
                    - Resources for flooding and poor water sanitation  	Cochrane & Evidence Aid
                    - Stay Safe Before, During and After a Flood  	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  

## Information by Topic Area

The searches below find resources from two National Library of Medicine databases:
                    - Disaster Lit® : links to disaster medicine and public health documents for a professional audience, available on the internet at no cost. Includes expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and more.
                    - PubMed : more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. May include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Click on the searches below, or go directly to the databases and develop your own searches.

### General Health-Related Information

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Disaster Response and Recovery: How Research Improves Preparedness, Response and Recovery
                          - Mosquito Management: Turnkey Solutions and Responsible Control

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##### PubMed

                          - Cognitive Integration of Personal or Public Events Affects Mental Health: Examining Memory Networks in a Case of Natural Flooding Disaster
                          - A One Health perspective to identify environmental factors that affect Rift Valley fever transmission in Gezira state, Central Sudan

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### Mold

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Flood Toolkit: A Planning Guide for Public Health and Emergency Response Professionals
                          - Dampness and Mold Assessment Tool: General Buildings - Form and Instructions

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##### PubMed

                          - Restoring Office-Based Surgical Facility Function Post-Hurricane Irma: Lessons Learned From Multiple Facilities
                          - Hurricane-Associated Mold Exposures Among Patients at Risk for Invasive Mold Infections After Hurricane Harvey - Houston, Texas, 2017

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### Wounds and Injuries 

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Disasters: Keeping Volunteers, Workers, and Responders Safe
                          - Surviving a Natural Disaster: Trauma and Survivor Guilt

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##### PubMed

                          - Effects of Climate Change and Maternal Morality: Perspective from Case Studies in the Rural Area of Bangladesh
                          - Debris Flow Syndrome: Injuries and Outcomes after the Montecito Debris Flow

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### Responder Safety

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Disasters: Keeping Volunteers, Workers, and Responders Safe
                          - Flooding in the Midwest: One University's Efforts to Reach Out to the Community

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##### PubMed

                          - Environmental health effects attributed to toxic and infectious agents following hurricanes, cyclones, flash floods and major hydrometeorological events
                          - Response Functions in Disasters: Iran Flash Flood 2016

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### Mass Casualties

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Staying Well in Times of Stress
                          - Disposal of Domestic or Exotic Livestock Carcasses

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##### PubMed

                          - When Disaster Strikes: How HTM Rises to the Occasion
                          - Hospital evacuation: Exercise versus reality

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### Sanitation and Disease

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Rough Waters: Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Hurricanes and Floods
                          - Climate and Health in Southeast Cities: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Webinar Series 

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##### PubMed

                          - Rapid Forecasting of Cholera Risk in Mozambique: Translational Challenges and Opportunities
                          - An integrated assessment of drainage system reconstruction based on a drainage network model

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### Coping

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Disaster Response and Recovery: How Research Improves Preparedness, Response and Recovery
                          - Rough Waters: Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Hurricanes and Floods

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##### PubMed

                          - Cognitive Integration of Personal or Public Events Affects Mental Health: Examining Memory Networks in a Case of Natural Flooding Disaster
                          - Perceptions of Mental Health and Wellbeing Following Residential Displacement and Damage from the 2018 St. John River Flood

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## Multilingual Resources

                  - Integrated Vector Management (IVM)  	Content available in  Spanish .  	Pan American Health Organization
                  - Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water  	Also available in Arabic, French, Spanish, and Vietnamese.  	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                  - Recursos Para Inundaciones (Resources for Floods)  	American Red Cross

## Resources for the General Public

Health information for the general public about hazards, emergencies, and disasters is available in MedlinePlus from the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus resources are also available in Spanish.

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