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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on September 26, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(1):5-6; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl079
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The Dutch experience with Health Impact Assessment of disasters

Marc Ruijten1

1 Centre for Health Impact Assessment of Disasters (CGOR), RIVM MGO (mailbox 10), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands, e-mail: Marc.Ruijten@rivm.nl

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Over the past decade, the Dutch government has learned that a crisis/disaster is not over when the fire has been extinguished, chemical spills have been contained or affected livestock has been cleared. Examples are as follows:

  • The crash of an El Al airplane in a residential area in Amsterdam (1992, 39 fatalities), where a disaster Health Impact Assessment (HIA) amongst 7300 victims was initiated after 8 years under political and societal pressure.1
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   Why conduct disaster HIA
 

   Organization of disaster response in The Netherlands
 

   Initiate a disaster HIA, or not?
 

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