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""Front Cover""; ""Reihentitel""; ""Impressum""; ""Abstract""; ""Kurzfassung""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Table of contents""; ""List of acronyms""; ""1 INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1 Background""; ""1.2 Reseach problem""; ""1.3 Description of study area""; ""1.3.1 Natural conditions of Hoi An City""; ""1.3.2 Population""; ""1.3.3 Sanitation status in Hoi An City""; ""1.3.4 Flood situation in Hoi An""; ""1.4 Research objectives""; ""1.5 Overview of methodology""; ""1.6 Structure of the report""; ""2 THEORETICAL BASIS""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Flooding and the impact on health""

""2.2.1 Flood nature and trends""""2.2.2 The impact of flood on heath""; ""2.3 Conceptual frame to assess flood-related health risk""; ""2.3.1 Risk terminology""; ""2.3.2 Health risk assessment framework and vulnerability indicators""; ""2.4 Risk factors for potential health outcome from flooding""; ""2.5 Recent studies with relevance to Hoi An City""; ""3 FLOOD IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN HOI AN CITY""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Method""; ""3.2.1 Site selection and sampling""; ""3.2.2 The survey""; ""3.2.3 Questionnaire structure""; ""3.2.4 Data analysis""; ""3.3 Results and discussion""

""3.3.1 Characteristics of study population""""3.3.2 Impact of flood on sanitation""; ""3.3.3 Impact of flood on water supply""; ""3.3.4 Impact on health due to communicable diseases in the flood""; ""3.4 Concluding remarks""; ""4 HEALTH SUSCEPTIBILITY INDEX""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Method""; ""4.2.1 Variable identification""; ""4.2.2 Conversion of variables into indicators and collecting the data on indicators""; ""4.2.3 Indicator standardization""; ""4.2.4 Calculating the Health Susceptibility Index""; ""4.3 Results and discussion""

""4.3.1 Susceptibility variables associated with communicable diseases""""4.3.2 Conversion of variables into susceptibility indicators""; ""4.3.3 Health susceptibility index""; ""4.4 Concluding remarks""; ""5 FLOOD-RELATED HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Method""; ""5.2.1 Flood hazard analysis""; ""5.2.2 Health vulnerability analysis""; ""5.3 Results and discussion""; ""5.3.1 Flood hazard assessment""; ""5.3.2 Health vulnerability assessment""; ""5.3.3 Health risk assessment""; ""5.4 Concluding remarks""; ""6 EVALUATION AND DISCUSSION""; ""6.1 Introduction""

""6.2 Evaluation with observed data""""6.3 Discussion of the methodology of health risk assessment""; ""7 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Conclusions""; ""7.3 Recommendations""; ""8 BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""9 ANNEX""; ""Annex 1""; ""Annex 2""; ""Annex 3""; ""Annex 4""; ""Annex 5""; ""Schriftenreihe WASSER ãa#x80;¢ ABWASSER ãa#x80;¢ UMWELT""

Includes bibliographical references.

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