As in other areas of community health practice, disaster management has its own terminology and classification schemes. Which describes vulnerabilities?
A) Normal conditions of existence are disrupted, and the level of suffering exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community to respond to it.
B) Social, economic, physical, or environmental factors that increase individual or community susceptibility to the effects of hazards or that inhibit ability to expect, manage, or recover from a disaster
C) The potential exists to cause disruption or damage to the community (e.g., earthquake, flood, typhoon, or cyclone).
D) A vast ecological breakdown in the relation between humans and their environment: a serious or sudden event on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope, often with outside or international aid
Ans: B
Vulnerabilities are social, economic, physical, or environmental factors that increase individual or community susceptibility to the effects of hazards or that inhibit ability to expect, manage, or recover from a disaster. Disaster occurs as a result of an event where normal conditions of existence are disrupted, and the level of suffering exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community to respond to it. A vast ecological breakdown occurs when, in the relation between humans and their environment, a serious or sudden event happens on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it, often with outside or international aid. A hazard occurs when an event has the potential to cause disruption or damage to the community (e.g., earthquake, flood, typhoon, or cyclone).
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