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Factors Affecting Flood Risk. The common health impacts of flooding are complex 13 they include. However poverty and limited access to financial resources are the major constraints affecting the adaptive capacity to combat future flooding events. In addition evidence suggests that climate change has increased the risk of flooding from rivers and perhaps also from coastal storms making FEMAs models of flood frequencies out of date. Increases in population density can also have an.
The common health impacts of flooding are complex 13 they include. The risk of flooding such as coastal erosion increases in sea level land development and reductions in the capac-ity of river channels. Soil becomes saturated after prolonged rainfall. Attempts at flood prediction. It is comprised of three elements. Participation of local communities.
This leads to more water entering the river channel increasing the likelihood of.
Internationally shared water and conflict. Participation of local communities. In addition evidence suggests that climate change has increased the risk of flooding from rivers and perhaps also from coastal storms making FEMAs models of flood frequencies out of date. Causing acute stress 14 malaria and cholera 15 depression 16 17 anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder PSTD damage to infrastructure 18 the loss of the existing health system and healthcare delivery services 19 damage to water and sewage systems and disruption to existing public health care. As melting of the the worlds glaciers occurs due to warmer global temperatures sea level rise is occurring around the world also leading to an increased risk of flooding in low-lying coastal regions and in heavily urbanized floodplains such as. For farmers whose farms are located in vulnerable areas and who have limited financial resource an implementation of non-structural techniques such as changing crop patterns and altering harvest seasons should be promoted.