Letter to Editor
Authors
1 Student Research Committee, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Social Welfare Management, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Health in Disaster and Emergency, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Abstract
Natural disasters affect children’s health enormously with various examples studied globally (1). It is defined as
“A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a so- ciety, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses, and impacts” (1). This def-inition includes natural disasters and humanitarian emer- gencies.
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