The Disability Adjusted Lifeyear Losses of Disasters, the Case of Wenchuan Earthquake

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10.2991/rac-18.2018.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disability Adjusted Life Years(DALYs), earthquake, disaster impact, Wenchuan earthquake

Abstract

This paper uses DALYs to aggregate measure the number of fatalities, of people affected, and the financial damage of disaster impact and apply it to Wenchuan Earthquake. The estimated total number of lifeyear losses is 18,359,222 years. Injuries and affected people contribute 40.8% to the total losses, more than fatalities (25.1%) or direct damage (34.1%). The results reveal following findings. (1) Inconspicuous losses is the most severe disaster losses. Injuries and affected people caused the most losses. (2) Long-term impacts of earthquakes are more serious than short-term impacts. Therefore, the inconspicuous impacts should be considered more in mitigation policy. Post-disaster recovery and assistance should be long enough.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Cong Lang
AU  - Xinyan Wu
AU  - Mengtan Gao
AU  - Guochun Wu
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - The Disability Adjusted Lifeyear Losses of Disasters, the Case of Wenchuan Earthquake
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster Prevention (RAC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 239
EP  - 244
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rac-18.2018.37
DO  - 10.2991/rac-18.2018.37
ID  - Lang2018/10
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