Long Term Impact of the Health Care of Communities after the Natural and Man-Made Disasters

Abstract

This research paper entails a detailed research on the long term impact of the health care of communities after the natural and man-made disasters. This paper explains the general classification of disasters, short term and immediate impact on health, and long term impact on health.

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Abstract2

Introduction4

Discussion5

Immediate Impact5

Long Term Health Impacts8

Conclusion9

References10

Long Term Impact of the Health Care of Communities after the Natural and Man-Made Disasters

Introduction

Disasters whether man made or natural, carries with them a considerable health burden for population that are affected and conciliation are made on the local health care service capacity for addressing the immediate needs of health care. It is reported by the International Federation of Red Crescent Societies and Red Cross that alone in the year of 2002 608 million people were affected due to international disasters and 24,000 were killed (Barnett, Balicer, etal., 2005). Disasters are proclaimed to be unusual events of public health that engulf the capacity of coping of the community affected. The general classifications of disasters are made with respect to the immediacy elicit of the event:

Natural Disasters: The encountered disaster is a natural phenomenon or biological, climatic or geological hazard.

Technological Disasters: They are triggered due to technological mishaps like chemical spills.

Complex Emergencies: This includes conflicts, and civil wars (Disease Control Priorities Project, 2007).

Economic losses or health losses due to natural or man-made disasters inexplicably affects countries that are developing, where the dominant effect is encompassed by the poor nationals of the country. It is documented that 90 percent of the deaths encountered due to natural disasters are in developing countries. Nevertheless, the economic loss in total is greater in developed countries, but the loss is far greater of developing countries in respect to the gross national product that that of developed countries.

Natural disasters are not arbitrary, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes occur along fault lined between two tectonic plates on the floor of the ocean or on land. Another subject area is tropical storms like typhoons, hurricanes, or cyclones), droughts, or flood is also known to be massive disasters. However, the concern of global warming is also playing a major role in redrawing climatic disaster maps. These risks are not realized nor recognized by the local population,

Complex emergencies and technological disasters are not predictable. There are many developing countries across the globe that is immune to risks of public health due to hazardous chemical substances emerging from industrial by-products to insecticides or improper discard of radioactive materials. Hazards due to technology are increasing at a rapid rate for the developing countries have unregulated industrialization and the globalization of chemical industries. It is suggested that in 21st century major source of disasters would be chemical emergencies.

The population being pronto different types of disasters depends on the urbanization pace, demographic growth, climatic change, settlement or dwelling in unsafe areas, unplanned developments, and environmental dilapidation. Poverty is another factor that increases the vulnerability for the lack of accessibility to health care ...