Epidemiology of Disasters

Module 1 - SLP Assignment:

Epidemiology of Disasters

Question 1: Provide an overview of the frequency and impact of disasters that have occurred in your selected country during the past 30 years.

The "disaster epidemiology" found its origins in the massive international relief operation mounted during the civil war in Nigeria, which occurred in the late sixties. The forest fire caused food shortages that affected millions of people in a wide area. The relief supplies were limited and therefore it was necessary to distinguish people who really needed food (Albon, 2011). Epidemiologists from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and ...