PUBHLTH 179 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Illapel, Emergency Management, Survival Sex
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Causes damage, ecological destruction, loss of human lives, or deterioration of health and health services. Results in humanitarian disaster which might constitute multi-dimensional risks or threats to international security. Center for public health training in complex humanitarian emergencies. The results of floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Situations affecting large civilian populations that involve food shortages, population displacement and war or civil strife. A person who is outside his or her country. Has fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, social group. Unable to get protection from own country. People that flee or are forced to migrate during a disaster or che. They leave their homes but stay in the their country of where they live. 90% of deaths occur in low & middle income countries. People can die as an indirect/direct result from the disaster. Damage to water supply and sanitation system. Migrants carry disease into areas that did not have such disease.
