any event endangering the life or health of a significant number of people and demanding immediate action. | Emergency |
Any event that causes a level of destruction, death, or injury that affects the abilities of the community to respond to the incident using available resources.
Depending on its characteristics, may be beyond the ability of the community to respond and recover from the incident using their own resources. | Disaster |
Terminology: 100 or more individuals are involved
such as fire, bombing | Mass casualty
Mass= daghan |
Terminology: More than 2 but fewer than 100 individuals are involved | Multiple casualty |
Terminology: can be classified as direct/indirect victim, displaced person, or a refugee. | Casualties |
Terminology: Casualties can be classified as | direct/indirect victim, displaced person, or a refugee |
Terminology: individual who is immediately affected by the event | Direct victim |
Terminology: Family member or friend of the victim or a first responder. | Indirect victim |
Terminology: Those who must evacuate their home, school, or business because of a disaster. | Displaced persons. |
Terminology: Group of people who have fled their home or even their country because of famine, drought, natural disaster, war, or civil unrest. | Refugees |
Types of disaster:
physical force, such as typhoon, flood, landslide, earthquake, and volcanic activity | Natural hazard |
Types of disaster:
process or phenomenon of organic origin or conveyed by biological vectors including exposure to pathogenic microorganisms, toxins, and bioactive substances (ex: disease outbreaks, red tide poisoning) | Biological Hazard |
Types of disaster:
arises from technological or industrial conditions, including accidents, dangerous procedures, and infrastructure failures. | Technological Hazard |
Types of disaster:
results from the interaction of varying political, social, or economic factors, which may have a negative impact on the community (ex: stampedes, armed conflicts, terrorist activity, riots). | Societal Hazard |
Types of disaster:
Natural disaster that creates or results in a widespread technological problem | NA-TECH (natural-technological) disaster |
"Criminal acts, including against civilians committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a govt. or an international org. to do or to abstain from doing any act." | Terrorism |
Any weapon that's designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or its precursors. | Weapons of mass destruction |
Characteristics of disasters: how often a disaster occurs | frequency |
Characteristics of disasters: The ability to tell when and if a disaster event will occur | Predicatbility |
Characteristics of disasters: a characteristic indicating that actions can be taken to avoid a disaster | preventability |
Characteristics of disasters: speed of onset of an impending disaster | iminence |
Characteristics of disasters: the range of its effect | Scope and number of casualties |
Characteristics of disasters: describes the level of destruction and devastation. | Intensity |
Characteristics of disasters: enumerate | congrats |
Disaster management stages: 1:
Occurs before a disaster is imminent and is known as the "non-disaster stage." | Preventions Stage |
Disaster management stages: 2:
includes training in first aid, assembling a disaster emergency kit, establishing a predetermined meeting place away from home, and making a family communication plan | Preparedness and Planning stage |
Disaster management stages: 3:
Begins immediately after the disaster incident occurs
Includes evacuation, search and rescue, and staging area (the on-side incident command station), and triage area | Response stage |
Disaster management stages: what is disaster triage | focus is to do as little as possible, for the greatest number, in the shortest period of time.
START triage/simple triage and rapid treatment |
Disaster management stages: 4:
begins when the danger from the disaster has passed and cornered local and national agencies are present in the are to help victims rebuild their lives and the community. | Recovery stage |
responsible for incident management at the local level (ex: police, fire, public health, public works, and medical emergency services) | First responders |
broad term used to describe all of the governmental and non-governmental organizations and agencies that contribute to the improvement of the health or populations. | Public Health System |
is officially founded in 1947
carries out 2 main functions: blood provision and disaster-related services.
present-day, offers 6 major services. | Philippine Red Cross |
Philippine Red Cross: is officially founded in: | 1947 |
Philippine Red Cross: carried out 2 main functions, and they are: | blood provision and disaster-related services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 1 | National Blood Services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 2
training in first aid, basic life support, water safety, accident prevention | Safety services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 3
guidance and counseling, psychological support, tracing service, referal service, early livelihood recovery program, hot meals | Social services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 4 | Volunteer services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 5
Basic Health Education Program, Primary Health Care | Community health and nursing services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: 6
relief operations, deployment of disaster response teams, organization of brgy. disaster action team, preposition of relief supplies. | Disaster Management Services |
Philippine Red Cross: present day, offers 6 major services: enumerate | National Blood services
Safety services
Volunteer services
Community health and nursing services
Disaster Management Services |
Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act; specified the policy of developing and implementing a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) | R.A. 10121 |
What is R.A. 10121: | Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act; specified the policy of developing and implementing a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) |
Standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management concept | Incident Command System (ICS) |
What is Incident Command System (ICS): | standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management concept |
are composed of people who report directly to the Incident Commander | The Command Staff |
What is a command staff | are composed of people who report directly to the incident commander |
The command staff usually includes: 1:
provides the public, media, and/or other agencies with required information related to the incident | Public Information Officer |
The command staff usually includes: 2
monitors operations related to the incident and advises the Incident Command on matters of operational safety, including the health and safety of responding personnel; has the authority to stop any unsafe act. | Safety officer |
The command staff usually includes: 3
Takes charge of coordinating representatives from cooperating and assisting agencies or organizations. | Liaison officer |
The command staff usually includes: 4
Responsible for the functional aspects of the incident command structure | General Staff |
Community Responses to a Disaster: 1
nearly everyone feels the need to rush to help people survive
Medical personnel may work hours without sleep, under dangerous and life-threatening conditions; may help in areas in which they're not familiar and have no experience. | Heroic phase |
Community Responses to a Disaster: 2
survivors gather and begin to tell their stories and review repeatedly what has occurred.
a. Bonds are formed among victims and health care workers
b. Gratitude is expressed for being alive. | Honeymoon Phase |
Community Responses to a Disaster: 3
feelings of despair arise
a. Medical personnel may begin to experience depression due to exhaustion.
b. People realize the way things were before is not the way things are now and may never be the same again. | Disillusionment stage |
Community Responses to a Disaster: 4
some sense of normalcy in returning
a. Restored some of the buildings, business, homes and services.
b. counseling support for victims
c. People begin to look to the future | Reconstruction phase |
Common individual reactions to a disaster: 1 | Emotional, cognitive, physical, and interpersonal reactions to a disaster usually resolve in 1-3 months after the disaster. |
Community Responses to a Disaster: 2
can occur following an individual's experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event; often relive the experience through nightmares and flashbacks. | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |