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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(1):3; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl076
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Viewpoints

Better planning for health impact assessment of disasters

Pierre Verger1, Marc Ruijten2, David Russell3, Patrick Saunders4 and Thierry Lang5

1 Observatoire Régional de la Santé, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Marseille, France
2 Centre for Health Impact Assessment of Disasters (CGOR), RIVM MGO (mailbox 10), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
3 Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, The Centre for Chemicals Radiation and Environmental Hazards, The Health Protection Agency, Cardiff, Wales, UK
4 Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, The Centre for Chemicals Radiation and Environmental Hazards, The Health Protection Agency, Chilton, Oxon, UK
5 Institut Fédératif de Recherche 126 Santé, Société Inserm U558 et Institut National de Veille Sanitaire, Toulouse, France

The accident at Chernobyl (Ukraine, 1986), the explosions at the fireworks storage (The Netherlands, 2000) and the AZF factory (France, 2001), the terrorist attacks of the Twin Towers (United States, 2001), the summer 2003 heat wave in Europe, the tsunami in Southeast Asia (2004) and, most recently, hurricanes Katrina and Rita (United States, 2005), and the earthquake in Pakistan (2005): all had serious human, health, social, and economic effects that remind us of the vulnerability of human societies to these events. No comprehensive strategy for investigating and learning more about the health, social, and societal consequences of disasters has been defined at the European or international level. These viewpoints focus on post disaster Health Impact Assessment (HIA) which involves exposure and health risk assessment as well as epidemiologic surveillance and in-depth studies.


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