Sentence examples for baseline disaster from inspiring English sources

The baseline disaster damage scenario for both cases assumes that 30%% of Cambodia's transportation sector becomes inundated (inoperable) for 30 days due to a 50-year return period flood event in which 60%% of the inundated roads become physically damaged (IRITWG 2012) and continue to be inoperable at the end of inundation period.

The necessity of more comprehensive baseline disaster disability statistics and more effective measurement of rehabilitation outcomes in disaster is emphasized.

Second, although several pre-disaster baseline risk factors, such as prior psychiatric problems, disaster experience, exposure to traumatic events, stress exposure, and alcohol consumption, are known to affect the mental health of affected people after a disaster [ 6, 53], we could not obtain such data because they were beyond the scope of the workplace health examinations.

Compounding incomplete disaster baseline and vital statistics, measurement of the impact of disaster-induced disability is further challenged by the lack of availability of appropriate standard indicators.

Affected residents of female and male gender and in five age groups all showed increases in utilization rates in the first post-disaster year and in psychological problems when compared to their pre-disaster baseline levels.

As a consequence, we already had insight into pre-disaster health problems and the results of our study could be controlled for pre-disaster baseline values.

Prompt planning for health relief activities requires access to existing pre-disaster baseline data on health services and programmes (VanRooyen and Leaning 2005).

The aim of this study was to explore whether the supposed risk factors of female gender and younger age would (also) appear in a study in family practice in which a pre-disaster baseline measurement was available with a longitudinal design, without recall bias and using a comparison group.

While acknowledging that the condition and value of buildings is likely to change greatly, the study's authors said it would give disaster planners a baseline for understanding how much economic risk their communities face.

Many disaster studies lack baseline data [ 12]; in contrast, our review of records from routine services of parenting counseling provides this critical baseline, and enabled us to document the changing trends of community concerns before and after the disaster.

Despite the crucial role of information in a disaster response, pre-disaster baseline health data are often not available where and when needed in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, or during the early stages of a prolonged disaster (Guha-Sapir and van Panhuis 2009).