Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies questions with correct answers
what is the importance of Natural Disasters and Complex Emergencies to Global Health? - Answer -They lead to increased death, illness, and disability -Large economic impacts -Measures can be taken to reduce costs of disaster and conflict disaster - Answer any occurrence that causes damage, ecological destruction, loss of human lives, or deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community area what is an example of a rapid disaster? - Answer earthquake what is an example of a slow-onset disaster? - Answer drought, famine Complex humanitarian emergency - Answer a complex, multi-party, intra-state conflict resulting in a humanitarian disaster which might constitute multi-dimensional risks or threats to regional and international security what is an example of a complex humanitarian emergency? - Answer Liberia: Civil war from led to almost 500,000 IDP and more than 125,000 refugees in Guinea alone Internally displaced people (IDPs) - Answer people who are forced to flee or migrate and leave their homes during a disaster or complex humanitarian emergency but stay in the country in which they were living
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