How many of these health-related events
would happen long after the actual
disaster, but would still be because of the
disaster?
Answers
Explanation:
It's been nearly two months since the strongest storm ever recorded slammed the Philippines and the U.S. alone has contributed more than $37 million to relief efforts in the devastated country according to Time Magazine. Other countries and international organizations like the U.N. have donated just as much to help decimated communities in the badly damaged province of Leyte return to some sense of normalcy as they begin to rebuild their lives.
Whether it's Louisiana hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, or Indonesia struck by the tsunami in 2004, communities that suffer from natural disasters also suffer from the side effects of the disaster long after the cameras have stopped rolling and the aid comes to a halt. Some of the greatest challenges these people undergo is not the natural disaster itself but the residual problems stemming from the disaster, namely the long-term health problems kindled from the calamity.
Courtland Robinson, a professor at the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says that when communities deal with natural disasters they deal with the emergency phase first. These are typically the images flashed across the TV screen immediately after a natural disaster has taken place.
This phase is all about rescue and recovery Robinson explained. Doctors and aid workers "stabilize the health of the population with emergency interventions,"
You need people who have acute trauma care skills to come in, find and rescue those people who are able to be saved," says Robinson. "It's really kind of a triage operation in many cases." Like doctors do in triage, first responders must decide who to save first based on their condition and the resources the relief teams have to help the individuals.
The emergency phase requires "providing things for the community that are realities like clean water, food, temporary shelter, immediately followed by health services," says Ron Waldman, professor of global health at George Washington University and board president of the non-governmental organization Doctors of the World.
Answer:
IT'S BEEN NEARLY TWO months since the strongest storm ever recorded slammed the Philippines and the U.S. alone has contributed more than $37 million to relief efforts in the devastated country according to Time Magazine. Other countries and international organizations like the U.N. have donated just as much to help decimated communities in the badly damaged province of Leyte return to some sense of normalcy as they begin to rebuild their lives.