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Floods are the most frequent type of disaster.
Annual estimates were obtained by adding summer and winter mortality. Climate models are unable to predict extreme events because they lack spatial and temporal resolution. In addition, there is no clear evidence that sustained or worldwide changes in extreme events have occurred in the past few decades. Nonetheless, such events cause loss of life and endanger health by increasing injuries, infectious diseases, stress-related disorders, and adverse health effects associated with social and environmental disruptions and environmentally enforced migration. Because each extreme weather event is unique in scale and location, and population vulnerability varies considerably, it is not possible to quantify the health impacts that would be associated with potential changes in extreme weather events.