More than 10 years after the storm Sandy filled the eastern coast and killed more than 200 people, shown a new swelling of adult deaths. The investigators linked the floods of 9% at the risk of death over 65 years of age.
Experts estimate that the sandy storm caused more than $ 60 billion damage to the damage after the area in 2012. The creeping floods and floods are full of New York and New Jersey, destroying hundreds of thousands of house. Over ten years later, the affected communities have been rebuilt, but the impact of storms at the coast of the old risk death, according to new research. Findings, published on Wednesday, August 6, in the line of journalism Public health, emphasizing the need for environmental disasters affecting public health in a long time, especially investors, researchers say.
“Storms and Floods and Floods and Floods affect the lives of those around them; Coping with the pressure related to all living, it can be seen as the death of the death of Cornell University, Gizmodo said.
“We also know it from some information from the storm where the environment changes in areas of affected.
He and his colleagues divide the most affected areas – New York State, New Jersey State, Connecticut, and New York City-959 Zip Code Tablourts. ZCTAs Common Presentations of Zip Codes of Public Health researchers are using environmental and local health information. 959 ZTCAs, 454 were magnificent during the cyclone Sandy, and 505 were inside 10 radiation.
The investigators then analyzed health information from approximately 300,000 residents about 65 years or older.
Analysis revealed that Medicare beneficiary beneficiaries of flooding Zctaure were highly high – 9% on average – death in all causes compared to floods. That climb continued to 5 years after a storm beat.
Local increase in the risk of death variations vary, but not in ways that researchers expected. Medican beneficiaries live in flooding parts of Clexicut and New York City showed the largest increase in death: 19% and 8%, respectively. The office and their colleagues are surprised to see that the elders living in rich acoccTicut are more slow than those who live in New York City, where social and human society can lead to severe natural disasters. Further research will require the investigation of the reasons behind this, but Ughosh accuses it may be related to a part of the storms.
In addition, the Hard-Hit New Jersey New York in New York has not indicated important storm-related effects on adult deaths. “We were surprised,” said office. New Jersey, this can be due to the fact that coastal residences are single holiday homes, reducing the effects of flood exposure.
Ghosh hopes that this data will help disaster risk aid and standards to read at local and work. Organizations need to think about temporary effects but also long-term health problems from storms, he said. “Surely we need many policies and infrastructures, especially as storms become more bad, [frequent]And it is dangerous. “
