About the Authors
- Peter Heudtlass
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* E-mail: heudtlass@gmail.com
Affiliation Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
- Niko Speybroeck
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
- Debarati Guha-Sapir
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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.