Health Consequences of the Massive Floods: Immediate and Long Term
Abstract
Kerala is a narrow strip of land about 500 kms long extending from Kaliyikkavila in the south to Manjeswaram in the north extending from the Western Ghats to the Arabian Sea about 150 kms broad. It has varied topographical features from the mountainous terrain to the hilly and flat plains. The state receives heavy rainfall approximately 200 cms yearly spread across two monsoons the South West beginning May end to September and the North Eastern from October to mid-December is drained by 44 rivers that take the water rapidly to the sea. Numerous dams harness these waters for generation of electricity, irrigation, flood control and water supply. Since time immemorial this state had protection from major natural disasters like floods, earthquakes and cyclones and manmade disasters like war and major communal flare-ups.
When publishing with Kerala Medicial Journal (KMJ), authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Work includes the material submitted for publication and any other related material submitted to KMJ. In the event that KMJ does not publish said work, the author(s) will be so notified and all rights assigned hereunder will revert to the author(s).
The assignment of rights to KMJ includes but is not expressly limited to rights to edit, publish, reproduce, distribute copies, include in indexes or search databases in print, electronic, or other media, whether or not in use at the time of execution of this agreement.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
The author(s) hereby represents and warrants that they are sole author(s) of the work, that all authors have participated in and agree with the content and conclusions of the work, that the work is original, and does not infringe upon any copyright, propriety, or personal right of any third party, and that no part of it nor any work based on substantially similar data has been submitted to another publication.
