About the Authors

Peter Heudtlass

heudtlass@gmail.com

Affiliation Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Niko Speybroeck

Affiliation Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Debarati Guha-Sapir

Affiliation Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

DGS is the director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in Brussels which hosts the CEDAT complex emergency database. PH has worked for CRED and on the CEDAT project between 2012 and 2013.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: PH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PH DGS NS. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: PH DGS NS. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.