Andrea Fernández García, Rick Kye Gan, José Antonio Cernuda Martínez, Pedro Arcos González
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Abstract
The objective of this cross-sectional study was to analyze the epidemiological profile of 3549 natural hazard-related disasters in Asia between 2000 and 2021. Using data compiled by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), we calculated the average rates of affected individuals, injuries, and deaths per year and per million inhabitants by type of disasters and applied ANOVA test to compare these estimates. Geophysical disasters, which include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mass movements of dry origin, were most severe with the highest average death (5973.236 per million), injury (5808.106 per million), and affected people rates (329 679.2 per million). In contrast, meteorological disasters registered the lowest average rate of deaths (44.377 per million), climatological disasters registered the lowest average rate of people injured (17.351 per million), while biological disasters exhibited the lowest average rate of affected people (2818.505 per million). There were significant decreasing trends in the average rates of the number of deaths (tau = - 0.34; p = 0.028), affected people (tau = - 0.32; p = 0.039), and injured people (tau = - 0.31; p = 0.042). We detected no trend in the frequency of all-natural hazard-related disasters.
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