Medical Consequences of Natural Disasters by Lazar Beinin

Medical Consequences of Natural Disasters by Lazar Beinin

By Lazar Beinin

In spite of all of the development made by way of smooth technological know-how and expertise in penetrating the mysteries of nature and supplying new chances for its transformation, we stay mostly helpless within the face of such common phenomena as earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, floods, and droughts. common mess ups happen all at once, yet with periodicity, and guy has been faced by means of their devastating outcomes all through background. the best way humans take care of those difficulties is essentially predetermined: through charac­ ter, through stipulations, and via the social and monetary improvement of society. Industri­ ous efforts to reconstruct nature, and exploitation of her assets, have led to extra harm, and there's the plain probability that our interference with the ambience and different components similar to weather, soil, and hydrology has initiated devastating techniques which could good be irreversible. for that reason, the results of typical failures, and the entire resulting repercussions, develop into ever extra anxious. Their scope turns into worldwide, and in the mean time we don't have any powerful countermeasures at our disposal with which to struggle them. The modern global, then, faces the interconnected and interdependent phenomena of ecological crises and usual mess ups: the matter of defending guy from the surroundings, and the concurrent challenge of shielding the surroundings from man.

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B The underwater atomic explosion example of an underwater explosion in shallow waters (about 15 m) equivalent to 100000 tons of TNT. The first sea wave it caused extended for 540 m from the epicenter, in 15 s. 01 s. Pressure can reach a maximun of 150 kglcm2• An aerial shockwave also occurs [188]. Missiles and bombs dropped during a military crises can create flood zones. Military actions can also destroy dikes, dams, sluices, and other hydrotechnical contructions. Although such actions deliberate tactics of military strategy, events may develop to the point where things get out of control.

113]. 25 Table 8. Postpartum and postnatal mortality, Turkmen SSR, 1949 (%) Institution . 9 NO, no data Disturbances in nutrition caused by lack of mothers' milk and overcrowding in children's homes were the main reasons for the high rate of dystrophy. In the Maryisky House for Children, hypotrophy comprised 75% of cases; in the Tashauzsky House, 65%; and in the Chardjousky House, 77%. 8% in the Chardjousky House. The children died of dysentery and other intestinal diseases (48%) and pneumonia (25%) [289, pp.

The main reason was worsened conditions during the course of pregnancy and delivery. In Ashkhabad on October 14, 1948, 15 of 25 pregnant women gave birth normally, while in ten cases the birth either was premature or miscarried [280, p. 113]. 25 Table 8. Postpartum and postnatal mortality, Turkmen SSR, 1949 (%) Institution . 9 NO, no data Disturbances in nutrition caused by lack of mothers' milk and overcrowding in children's homes were the main reasons for the high rate of dystrophy. In the Maryisky House for Children, hypotrophy comprised 75% of cases; in the Tashauzsky House, 65%; and in the Chardjousky House, 77%.

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