GPH 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Internally Displaced Person, Case Fatality Rate, Community Areas In Chicago
25 May 2019
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Chapter 15: natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies. The importance of natural disasters and complex emergencies to global health. Measures can be taken to reduce costs of disaster and conflict. Crisis emergency disaster catastrophe. Disaster: any occurrence that causes damage, ecological destruction, loss of human lives, or deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community area. Human made: cloud of poisonous gas, release of radioactive material. Complex humanitarian emergency: complex, multi-party, intra-state conflict resulting in a humanitarian disaster which might constitute multi-dimensional risks or threats to regional and international security. Impact availability of food, water and shelter. Internally displaced people (idp): people who are forced to flee or migrate and leave their homes during a disaster or complex humanitarian emergency but stay in the country in which they were living. Responsibility of the government time, per 10,000 per day. epidemic.
