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Natural disasters, population displacement and health emergencies: multiple public health threats in Mozambique

BMJ glob. health; 6 (9), 2021
No início de 2019, após a grave seca de 2015-2016, as províncias de Sofala e Cabo Delgado, em Moçambique, foram atingidas pelos ciclones Idai e Kenneth, respectivamente. Estes foram os ciclones mais mortíferos e destrutivos da história do país. Actualmente, estas duas províncias acolhem dezenas d...

Cyclone Idai as a Trigger for Pellagra Outbreak in Nhamatanda, Mozambique: A Case-Control Study

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 108 (8), 2021
In mid-June 2019, 3 months after cyclone Idai landfall in Mozambique, health authorities of Nhamatanda district reported an outbreak of Pellagra. Applying a mixed-method protocol, we carried out an investigation to characterize cases of pellagra, identify the associated factors for the outbreak using a c...

Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic

Infect. dis. poverty; 9 (68), 2020
Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two million pe...

Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic

Parasit. vectors; (), 2020
Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two million pe...

Debate público sobre o impacto das mudanças climáticas na saúde

A localização geográ¬ca de Moçambique na zona intertropical, a jusante de bacias hidrográ¬cas partilhadas, à sua longa costa e a existência de extensas áreas com altitude abaixo do actual nível do mar in uenciam para a sua vulnerabilidade a eventos extremos de origem meteorológica tais como s...