document

Floods have become less deadly: an analysis of global flood fatalities 1975–2022

Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Curran, A.N. (author), Bouwer, L. M. (author)

Floods are amongst the most frequent disasters in terms of human and economic impacts. This study provides new insights into the frequency of loss of life at the global scale, mortality fractions of the population exposed to floods, and underlying trends. A dataset is compiled based on the EM-DAT disaster database covering the period 1975...

journal article 2024

document

Estimates of disease burden caused by foodborne pathogens in contaminated dairy products in Rwanda

Sapp, Amanda C. (author), Nane, G.F. (author), Amaya, Mirna P. (author), Niyonzima, Eugène (author), Hategekimana, Jean Paul (author), VanSickle, John J. (author), Gordon, Ronald M. (author), Havelaar, Arie H. (author)

BACKGROUND: The Girinka program in Rwanda has contributed to an increase in milk production, as well as to reduced malnutrition and increased incomes. But dairy products can be hazardous to health, potentially transmitting diseases such as bovine brucellosis, tuberculosis, and cause diarrhea. We analyzed the burden of foodborne disease due to...

journal article 2023

document

Epigenetic and Metabolomic Biomarkers for Biological Age: A Comparative Analysis of Mortality and Frailty Risk

Kuiper, L.M. (author), Polinder-Bos, Harmke A. (author), Bizzarri, D. (author), Vojinovic, Dina (author), Vallerga, Costanza L. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author), Slagboom, P. Eline (author), van den Akker, E.B. (author)

Biological age captures a person's age-related risk of unfavorable outcomes using biophysiological information. Multivariate biological age measures include frailty scores and molecular biomarkers. These measures are often studied in isolation, but here we present a large-scale study comparing them. In 2 prospective cohorts (n = 3 222), we...

journal article 2023

document

Intercontinental validation of a clinical prediction model for predicting 90-day and 2-year mortality in an Israeli cohort of 2033 patients with a femoral neck fracture aged 65 or above

Oosterhoff, J.H.F. (author), Karhade, Aditya V. (author), Groot, Olivier Q. (author), Schwab, Joseph H. (author), Heng, Marilyn (author), Klang, Eyal (author), Prat, Dan (author)

Purpose: Mortality prediction in elderly femoral neck fracture patients is valuable in treatment decision-making. A previously developed and internally validated clinical prediction model shows promise in identifying patients at risk of 90-day and 2-year mortality. Validation in an independent cohort is required to assess the generalizability;...

journal article 2023

document

Mangrove forests as a nature-based solution for coastal flood protection: Biophysical and ecological considerations

van Hespen, Rosanna (author), Hu, Zhan (author), Borsje, Bas W. (author), De Dominicis, Michela (author), Friess, Daniel A. (author), Jevrejeva, Svetlana (author), Kleinhans, Maarten G. (author), Maza, Maria (author), van Wesenbeeck, B (author)

Nature-based coastal protection is increasingly recognised as a potentially sustainable and cost-effective solution to reduce coastal flood risk. It uses coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests to create resilient designs for coastal flood protection. However, to use mangroves effectively as a nature-based measure for flood risk reduction...

journal article 2022

document

Two-Population SIR Model and Strategies to Reduce Mortality in Pandemics

Ma, L. (author), Kitsak, M.A. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author)

Despite many studies on the transmission mechanism of the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), it remains still challenging to efficiently reduce mortality. In this work, we apply a two-population Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model to investigate the COVID-19 spreading when contacts between elderly and non...

conference paper 2022

document

Mortality Attributable to Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter: Insights from the Epidemiologic Evidence for Understudied Locations

Colonna, Kyle J. (author), Koutrakis, Petros (author), Kinney, Patrick L. (author), Cooke, R.M. (author), Evans, John S. (author)

Epidemiologic cohort studies have consistently demonstrated that long-term exposure to ambient fine particles (PM_2.5) is associated with mortality. Nevertheless, extrapolating results to understudied locations may involve considerable uncertainty. To explore this issue, this review discusses the evidence for (i) the associated risk...

review 2022

document

Reflection on Life, in the Light of Mortality Awareness

Chaudhary, Ayushi (author)

Mortality is the fact of life, yet we as collective human species relate to it in (multidimensional) fearful ways (Cozzolino et al., 2013). Subsequently, in an attempt to proof ourselves from this death induced anxiety and fear, we have adapted to denying or avoiding our mortality to us, thus living in a death-buffer system. (Cave, 2013)However,...

master thesis 2021

document

Impact of hydraulic model resolution and loss of life model modification on flood fatality risk estimation: Case study of the Bommelerwaard, The Netherlands

Brussee, A.R. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), De Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Verhoeven, Govert F. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)

Flood simulations are important for flood (fatality) risk assessment. This article provides insight into the sensitivity of flood fatality risks to the model resolution of flood simulations and to several uncertain parameters in the loss of life model used. A case study is conducted for river flooding in a polder in the Netherlands (the...

journal article 2021

document

Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

Konings, Alexandra G. (author), Saatchi, Sassan S. (author), Frankenberg, Christian (author), Keller, Michael (author), Leshyk, Victor (author), Anderegg, William R.L. (author), Humphrey, Vincent (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Wang, Yujie (author)

Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water stress in trees has long focused on water potential in xylem and leaves, which influences stomatal closure and water flow through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. At the...

review 2021

document

Improving flood fatality risk assessment for river flooding in the Netherlands: Implications of alternative functions and model resolution variations on mortality and fatalities in the Bommelerwaard

Brussee, Anneroos (author)

The number of fatalities due to a potential flood event is traditionally determined utilizing 'mortality functions’. Data of recent large-scale flooding in the Netherlands are not available since the Netherlands was successful in flood prevention. Therefore, only data from the last coastal flood event in 1953 with 1795 direct fatalities are...

master thesis 2020

document

The Drivers of Child Mortality During the 2012–2016 Drought in La Guajira, Colombia

Contreras, Diana (author), Voets, Alex (author), Junghardt, Jana (author), Bhamidipati, S.K. (author), Contreras, Sandra (author)

During the 2012–2016 drought in La Guajira, Colombia, child mortality rates rose to 23.4 out of 1000. Most of these children belonged to the Wayuu indigenous community, the largest and one of the most vulnerable in Colombia. At the municipal level, this study found a significant positive correlation between the average child mortality rate...

journal article 2020

document

Cerebral regional tissue oxygen saturation to guide oxygen delivery in preterm neonates during immediate transition after birth (COSGOD III): An investigator-initiated, randomized, multi-center, multi-national, clinical trial on additional cerebral tissue oxygen saturation monitoring combined with defined treatment guidelines versus standard monitoring and treatment as usual in premature infants during immediate transition: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Pichler, Gerhard (author), Baumgartner, Sigrid (author), Biermayr, Marlene (author), Dempsey, Eugene (author), Fuchs, Hans (author), Goos, T.G. (author), Lista, Gianluca (author), Lorenz, Laila (author), Karpinski, Lukasz (author)

Background: Transition immediately after birth is a complex physiological process. The neonate has to establish sufficient ventilation to ensure significant changes from intra-uterine to extra-uterine circulation. If hypoxia or bradycardia or both occur, as commonly happens during immediate transition in preterm neonates, cerebral hypoxia...

journal article 2019

document

Global mortality from storm surges is decreasing

Bouwer, LM (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)

Changes in society's vulnerability to natural hazards are important to understand, as they determine current and future risks, and the need to improve protection. Very large impacts including high numbers of fatalities occur due to single storm surge flood events. Here, we report on impacts of global coastal storm surge events since the year...

journal article 2018

document

Hypoxemia diagnosis for rural India: Design a low-cost uniform solution (single-probe) to spot-check the SpO2 that fits children from 0 to 5 years old that is adequate for low-resource setting

Ramirez Herrera, S.L. (author)

Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of children’s deaths before they can celebrate their fifth birthday. The majority of pneumonia cases and deaths caused by it are concentrated on the poorest regions of the world; having India the burden of leading both lists. For this reason, UNICEF and the WHO, have made of this issue a priority on their...

master thesis 2015

document

Design of a breach retardant dike

Lemmens, D.D.M.M. (author)

Sand dikes have a sand core and a clay layer to protect the core against erosion. It is not unlikely that this layer fails due to several failure mechanisms, exposing the sand core to water. This can be catastrophically when water is overtopping the dike. In case the protective cover fails, water can flow over the core and erode the sand,...

master thesis 2014

document

Tachypnea diagnosis for low resource settings

Medema, L.C. (author)

More children under the age of five in developing countries die of pneumonia than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. Pneumonia is responsible for 18% of the deaths of children under the age of five globally. The vast majority of deaths due to pneumonia are set in the poorest regions, resulting in the death of 1,4 million children from...

master thesis 2013

document

Space and panic: The application of space syntax to understand the relationship between mortality rates and spatial configuration in Banda Aceh during the tsunami 2004

Fakhrurrazi, F. (author), Van Nes, A. (author)

The aim of this paper is to reveal the correlation between mortality rates from the tsunami of 2004 and the spatial structure of Banda Aceh’s street net. Structurally, the city is divided up in several small villages, which consists of a couple of urban blocks. The mortality rates for each of these local villages, gained from Japan International...

conference paper 2012

document

Loss of life caused by floods: An overview of mortality statistics for worldwide floods

Jonkman, S.N. (author)

report 2003

document

Computational Intelligence. Mortality Models for the Actuary

Willemse, W.J. (author)

This thesis applies computational intelligence to the field of actuarial (insurance) science. In particular, this thesis deals with life insurance where mortality modelling is important. Actuaries use ancient models (mortality laws) from the nineteenth century, for example Gompertz' and Makeham's law of mortality, to calculate lump sums and...

doctoral thesis 2001