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level: Chapter 14: Disaster Management

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level questions: Chapter 14: Disaster Management

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any event endangering the life or health of a significant number of people and demanding immediate action.Emergency
Any event that causes a level of destruction, death, or injury that affects the abilities of the community to respond to the incident using available resources. Depending on its characteristics, may be beyond the ability of the community to respond and recover from the incident using their own resources.Disaster
Terminology: 100 or more individuals are involved such as fire, bombingMass casualty Mass= daghan
Terminology: More than 2 but fewer than 100 individuals are involvedMultiple casualty
Terminology: can be classified as direct/indirect victim, displaced person, or a refugee.Casualties
Terminology: Casualties can be classified asdirect/indirect victim, displaced person, or a refugee
Terminology: individual who is immediately affected by the eventDirect victim
Terminology: Family member or friend of the victim or a first responder.Indirect victim
Terminology: Those who must evacuate their home, school, or business because of a disaster.Displaced persons.
Terminology: Group of people who have fled their home or even their country because of famine, drought, natural disaster, war, or civil unrest.Refugees
Types of disaster: physical force, such as typhoon, flood, landslide, earthquake, and volcanic activityNatural hazard
Types of disaster: process or phenomenon of organic origin or conveyed by biological vectors including exposure to pathogenic microorganisms, toxins, and bioactive substances (ex: disease outbreaks, red tide poisoning)Biological Hazard
Types of disaster: arises from technological or industrial conditions, including accidents, dangerous procedures, and infrastructure failures.Technological Hazard
Types of disaster: results from the interaction of varying political, social, or economic factors, which may have a negative impact on the community (ex: stampedes, armed conflicts, terrorist activity, riots).Societal Hazard
Types of disaster: Natural disaster that creates or results in a widespread technological problemNA-TECH (natural-technological) disaster
"Criminal acts, including against civilians committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a govt. or an international org. to do or to abstain from doing any act."Terrorism
Any weapon that's designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or its precursors.Weapons of mass destruction
Characteristics of disasters: how often a disaster occursfrequency
Characteristics of disasters: The ability to tell when and if a disaster event will occurPredicatbility
Characteristics of disasters: a characteristic indicating that actions can be taken to avoid a disasterpreventability
Characteristics of disasters: speed of onset of an impending disasteriminence
Characteristics of disasters: the range of its effectScope and number of casualties
Characteristics of disasters: describes the level of destruction and devastation.Intensity
Characteristics of disasters: enumeratecongrats
Disaster management stages: 1: Occurs before a disaster is imminent and is known as the "non-disaster stage."Preventions Stage
Disaster management stages: 2: includes training in first aid, assembling a disaster emergency kit, establishing a predetermined meeting place away from home, and making a family communication planPreparedness and Planning stage
Disaster management stages: 3: Begins immediately after the disaster incident occurs Includes evacuation, search and rescue, and staging area (the on-side incident command station), and triage areaResponse stage
Disaster management stages: what is disaster triagefocus is to do as little as possible, for the greatest number, in the shortest period of time. START triage/simple triage and rapid treatment
Disaster management stages: 4: begins when the danger from the disaster has passed and cornered local and national agencies are present in the are to help victims rebuild their lives and the community.Recovery stage
responsible for incident management at the local level (ex: police, fire, public health, public works, and medical emergency services)First responders
broad term used to describe all of the governmental and non-governmental organizations and agencies that contribute to the improvement of the health or populations.Public Health System
is officially founded in 1947 carries out 2 main functions: blood provision and disaster-related services. present-day, offers 6 major services.Philippine Red Cross
Philippine Red Cross: is officially founded in:1947
Philippine Red Cross: carried out 2 main functions, and they are:blood provision and disaster-related services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 1National Blood Services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 2 training in first aid, basic life support, water safety, accident preventionSafety services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 3 guidance and counseling, psychological support, tracing service, referal service, early livelihood recovery program, hot mealsSocial services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 4Volunteer services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 5 Basic Health Education Program, Primary Health CareCommunity health and nursing services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 6 relief operations, deployment of disaster response teams, organization of brgy. disaster action team, preposition of relief supplies.Disaster Management Services
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: enumerateNational Blood services Safety services Volunteer services Community health and nursing services Disaster Management Services
Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act; specified the policy of developing and implementing a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP)R.A. 10121
What is R.A. 10121:Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act; specified the policy of developing and implementing a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP)
Standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management conceptIncident Command System (ICS)
What is Incident Command System (ICS):standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management concept
are composed of people who report directly to the Incident CommanderThe Command Staff
What is a command staffare composed of people who report directly to the incident commander
The command staff usually includes: 1: provides the public, media, and/or other agencies with required information related to the incidentPublic Information Officer
The command staff usually includes: 2 monitors operations related to the incident and advises the Incident Command on matters of operational safety, including the health and safety of responding personnel; has the authority to stop any unsafe act.Safety officer
The command staff usually includes: 3 Takes charge of coordinating representatives from cooperating and assisting agencies or organizations.Liaison officer
The command staff usually includes: 4 Responsible for the functional aspects of the incident command structureGeneral Staff
Community Responses to a Disaster: 1 nearly everyone feels the need to rush to help people survive Medical personnel may work hours without sleep, under dangerous and life-threatening conditions; may help in areas in which they're not familiar and have no experience.Heroic phase
Community Responses to a Disaster: 2 survivors gather and begin to tell their stories and review repeatedly what has occurred. a. Bonds are formed among victims and health care workers b. Gratitude is expressed for being alive.Honeymoon Phase
Community Responses to a Disaster: 3 feelings of despair arise a. Medical personnel may begin to experience depression due to exhaustion. b. People realize the way things were before is not the way things are now and may never be the same again.Disillusionment stage
Community Responses to a Disaster: 4 some sense of normalcy in returning a. Restored some of the buildings, business, homes and services. b. counseling support for victims c. People begin to look to the futureReconstruction phase
Common individual reactions to a disaster: 1Emotional, cognitive, physical, and interpersonal reactions to a disaster usually resolve in 1-3 months after the disaster.
Community Responses to a Disaster: 2 can occur following an individual's experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event; often relive the experience through nightmares and flashbacks.Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)