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[Categories of biological agents]
-Low mortality rate
-require specific enhancements of diagnostic capacity and enhanced disease survelliance
- result in moderate and low mortality rates
-moderately easy to disseminate

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Category B

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[Categories of biological agents]
-require a special action of public health preparedness
-promote public panic and social disruption
-result in high mortality rates and have the potential for major public health impact
-highest risks because the of ease of dissemination or transmission from person to person

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CATEGORY A

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[Categories of biological agents]
-major health impact
-have the potential for high morbidity and mortality rates
-Ease of production and dissemination
-emerging pathogens that could be enginereed for mass dissemination because of availability

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CATEGORY C

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Small pox

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Category A

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Brucellosis

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Category B

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Hantavirus
Nipah virus
Yellow fever virus

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Category C

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Tick borne encephalitis

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Category C

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Drug resistant TB

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Category C

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Typhus fever

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Category B

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Anthrax
plageu

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Category A

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Viral hemorrhagic fevers

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Category A

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Tularemia

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Category A

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Botulinum toxin

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Category A

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Water safety threats
Epsilon Toxin
Q fever

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Category B

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Adaptation of professional nursing skills in recognizing and meeting the nursing physical and emotional needs resulting from disaster

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Disaster nursing

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Catastrophic event that results on casualties that overwhelm the healthcare resources in that community and may result in a sudden unanticipated surge of a change in standards of care and a need to allocate sarce resources

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HEALTH DISASTER

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Refers to the potential threat to humans and their welfare

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HAZARD

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It presents the probability of the occurence of a disaster caused by natural phenomena, failure of man made sources of energy or human activity

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Hazard

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Actual exposure of something of human value. Often measured as the produxt of probability and loss

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Risk

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Probability of harmful consequences or expected losses resulting from interactions between natural or human induced haxards and vulnerable conditions

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Risk

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Equation of risk

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Risk=hazard x vunerability

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It is determined by physical, social, ecomnomic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual

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Vulnerability

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Combination of al strengths and resources available within the community, society or organization that can reduce the level of risk, or the effects of a disaster

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Capacity

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Tor F: tbere is no such thing as natural disasters only natural hazards

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TRUE

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Risk is the combination of
Hazard, exposure and vulnerability
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Internal disaster
Disruption of normal hospital function due to injuries or deaths of hospital personnel or damage to the facility
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External disaster
Do not affect the hospital infrastructure but tax hospital resources due to number of patients or type of injuries
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Airbursts Space weather Shockwave events
Extraterrestrial disaster
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Extreme changes in temperature Storm Fog Ice frost
Meteorological disaster
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Drought Glacial lake Wildfire Land fire Forest fire
Climatological disaster
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Floods Ice jam Landslides Avalanche Debris Rock fall Wave action
Hydrological disaster
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Epidemic Insect infestation Animal accidents
Biological disaster
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Solod earth -earthquake -dry mass -ash fall -lahar -pyroclastic flow -lava flow
Geophysical disaster
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Situation here population suffer. Civil war Political conflict
Complex human emergencies
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Unplanned release of nuclear energy And fires or explosions -fuel, chemicals or nuclear materials
Technological diaster
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Natural human generated disaster that triggered a secondary diasater
Synergistic Disaster
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Terror by a state
Mass terror
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Attack on a head of state or a ruling elite
Dynastic assasination
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Placing of explosives where people gather to destroy whoever happens to be there
Random terror
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Focus random terror is Placing explosives to where
Significant agents of oppresion are likely to gather
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Directed solely against the ruling government as a part of a broad revolutionary strategic plan
Tactical terror
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Producing injury or death
-nerve agents (anticholinesterases) -blood agents (cyanogens) -blister agents (vesicants) -lung damaging agents (choking agents)
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Producing temporary effects
-stimulants -psychedelics -drpressants -deliriants
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Deliberate releas of viruses, bacteria and other germs to cause illness or death
Bioterrorism
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Nuclear accident on march 11 2011 After an earthquake a 15m tsunami disabled the power supply
Fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster
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Particles/elemnts released during fukushima daiichi
Iodine-8 years of half life Caesium-30 " Tritium-12 "
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Significant elements released by chernobyl 1986
Iodine-8 days of half life Strontium-29 " Caesium-30 "
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Steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reacfor core into the environment
Chernobyl disaster
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Occur directly pressure from the pressure wave of the blast
Primary injury
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Occure being struck by flying objects feom the blast
Secondary injury
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Occurs when victims are displaced from a location and strike other objects or surfaces
Tertiary injury
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Burns, inhalation injuries, toxic exposures, and traumatic injuries from structural collapse
Quarternary
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Blunt injury
Secondary injury
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Eye rupture Abdominal hemorrhage and perfirtation Concussion (TBI) with no physical signs of head injury
Primary injury
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Fracture and traumatic amputation Closed and open brain injury
Tertiary
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Proactive planning efforts designed to structure the disaster response prior to its occurence
Preparedness phase
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Disaster planning that enco.passes evaluating potential vulnerabilities and the prospensity for a disaster to occur
Preparedness phase
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Measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of a disaster by attempting to limit its impact on human health, community function and economic infrastructure
Mitigation phase
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Steps taken to lessen the impact of a diaster should be one occur and can be considered as prevention measures
Mitigation phase
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Focuses on emergency relief
Response phase
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Providing first aid
Response phase
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Minimizing and restoring damaged systems such as communications ans transportation
Response phase
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Providing care and basic life requirements and or necessities
Response phase
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ICS
Incident command system
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Its is routinely practiced and updated as needed
ICS
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Rebuild and repair damaged building mental health interventions
Recovery phase
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Phase in planninga nd response that Receives Least attention
Evaluation phase
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Determine in the evaluation the ff:
-what worked -what did not work -what specific problems issues and challenges were identified

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