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Disasters

"Disasters" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Calamities producing great damage, loss of life, and distress. They include results of natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. Normal conditions of existence are disrupted and the level of impact exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disasters" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disasters" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2016
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