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# Droughts: Health Information Guide

## Overview

                    - Drought and Health    	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
                    - When Every Drop Counts: Protecting Public Health During Drought Conditions - A Guide for Public Health Professionals    	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
                    - National Drought Mitigation Center  	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                    - North American Drought Monitor  	National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
                    - U.S. Drought Portal  	National Integrated Drought Information System
                    - U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook  	National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

## 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

                          - SOHS (State of the Humanitarian System) 2018 Case Study: Kenya
                          - How Do We Prevent a Food Crisis in the Midst of Climate Change?

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##### PubMed

                          - Is "Perceived Water Insecurity" Associated with Disaster Risk Perception, Preparedness Attitudes, and Coping Ability in Rural China? (A Health-EDRM Pilot Study)
                          - Impact of climate change on community health and resilience in Ethiopia: A review article

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### Worker and Responder Safety

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Disaster Behavioral Health Information Series (DBHIS) Resource Collections
                          - Case Study 3: An Intersection Between Conflict and Disaster: Myanmar

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##### PubMed

                          - Hunger, Health, and Compassion
                          - Climate adversity and resilience: the voice of rural Australia

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### Preparedness and Response

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Addressing the Impact of Climate Change on Public Health and Natural Disasters
                          - Role and Vulnerabilities of Older People in Drought in East Africa: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities for a More Inclusive Humanitarian Response

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##### PubMed

                          - Is "Perceived Water Insecurity" Associated with Disaster Risk Perception, Preparedness Attitudes, and Coping Ability in Rural China? (A Health-EDRM Pilot Study)
                          - Building resilience to El Niño-related drought: experiences in early warning and early action from Nicaragua and Ethiopia

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### Droughts and Disease

##### Disaster Lit

                          - SOHS (State of the Humanitarian System) 2018 Case Study: Kenya
                          - Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: Communicable Diseases

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##### PubMed

                          - Outbreak of Cyanide Poisoning Caused by Consumption of Cassava Flour - Kasese District, Uganda, September 2017
                          - Impacts of Climate Change on Health and Wellbeing in South Africa

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### Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Development and Implementation of Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan in Vulnerable Rural Communities: WHO-WSP (World Health Organization-Water Safety Plan) Project
                          - Humanitarian Capacity-Building in Mozambique: Improving Living and Health Conditions in Zambézia

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##### PubMed

                          - Impacts of Climate Change on Health and Wellbeing in South Africa
                          - Untangling the Impacts of Climate Change on Waterborne Diseases: a Systematic Review of Relationships between Diarrheal Diseases and Temperature, Rainfall, Flooding, and Drought

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### Climate Change and Droughts

##### Disaster Lit

                          - How Do We Prevent a Food Crisis in the Midst of Climate Change?
                          - Addressing the Impact of Climate Change on Public Health and Natural Disasters

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##### PubMed

                          - Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate
                          - Effects on daily mortality of droughts in Galicia (NW Spain) from 1983 to 2013

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### Impact on Food and Nutrition

##### Disaster Lit

                          - How Do We Prevent a Food Crisis in the Midst of Climate Change?
                          - Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) : Lessons from a Decade of Experience 2018

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##### PubMed

                          - Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate
                          - Banana and plantain production systems in Benin: ethnobotanical investigation, varietal diversity, pests, and implications for better production

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### Coping

##### Disaster Lit

                          - Beneath the Dryland: Kenya Drought Gender Analysis
                          - Disaster Behavioral Health Information Series (DBHIS) Resource Collections

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##### PubMed

                          - A bibliometric analysis of health-related literature on natural disasters from 1900 to 2017
                          - Identifying rice stress on a regional scale from multi-temporal satellite images using a Bayesian method

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## Multilingual Resources

                  - Desastres de comienzo lento. Sequía, inseguridad alimentaria e inseguridad en los medios de sustento (Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity. Learning from previous relief and recovery responses)    	Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action / ProVention Consortium
                  - MedlinePlus en español, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 	                     - Cambio Climático (Climate Change)
                    - Enfrentarse con Desastres (Coping with Disasters) 

## 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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