HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: National Incident Management System, Incident Command System, Global Health
22 Nov 2018
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Lecture 3 global health priorities chapter 2 part 4. Distributive justice = the ethical principle that needed resources in a population should be fairly allocated. The right to health in the udhr implies that signatories have an ethical responsibility to expand the availability of vaccines, diagnostic tests, and medicines that are free or low-cost for people who live in low-income countries. Both natural and human-generated disasters can lead to urgent humanitarian situations. The players involved in a particular humanitarian response depend on the scale of the incident. Catastrophe > disaster > emergency > crisis. 2 different kinds of disasters, natural and human generated. Scale of critical incidents depends on capacity and demand: crisis, emergency, disaster, catastrophe demand >> capacity extensive outside assistance is necessary. Interagency coordination helps facilitate a relatively rapid and comprehensive response. Several essential needs have been designated as humanitarian response clusters.
