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Number of people affected by flooding per million population in the WHO European Region
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Methodology:
EM-DAT data for flooding and wet mass movement events was extracted for the countries in the WHO European Region for 2000 to 2011 from the website http://www.emdat.be/advanced-search. EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be – Université Catholique de Louvain – Brussels – Belgium. The rate per million was calculated with the average population in each country as reported in the HFA database. Mpa
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- World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe)
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EM-DAT defines "affected" as "People requiring immediate assistance during a period of emergency, i.e. requiring basic survival needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and immediate medical assistance. Appearance of a significant number of cases of an infectious disease introduced in a region or a population that is usually free from that disease."
Map also cover Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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