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Disaster Prevention and Preparedness - Carter Center

LECTURE NOTES. For Health Science Students Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Lelisa Sena, , Kifle Woldemichael, , Jimma University In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center , the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education November 2006. Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00. Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center , the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.

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1 LECTURE NOTES. For Health Science Students Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Lelisa Sena, , Kifle Woldemichael, , Jimma University In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center , the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education November 2006. Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00. Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center , the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.

2 Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this publication for educational, not-for-profit use by health care workers, students or faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a commercial basis, or to claim authorship of, copies of material reproduced from this publication. 2006 by Lelisa Sena and Kifle Woldemichael All rights reserved.

3 Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author or authors. This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or students and faculty in a health care field. PREFACE. Disasters take various forms ranging from natural disasters, such as tornados, to man made disasters, such as workplace violence, and happen on a far too frequent basis.

4 No matter what type of Disaster befalls individuals, organization or country, the results are typically the same, , substantial loss of life, assets and productivity. In most cases, health professionals are among those who extensively participate in the management of disasters. Therefore, health professionals need to be familiar with Disaster Prevention and Preparedness in order to prevent potential disasters from happening where possible, minimize risks where Prevention is not possible, and appropriately react to keep the damage to a minimum.

5 Disaster Prevention and Preparedness is a newly designed course for health science students. The aim of the course is to equip students with knowledge and skills of developing feasible Disaster Prevention plans and Preparedness before a Disaster happens to minimize the risks and the resulting damages. Nevertheless, lack of relevant and contextualized teaching materials is a common phenomenon within Higher education institutions. This also holds true for this particular course. This endeavor is therefore, to contribute towards the alleviation of this scarcity.

6 The lecture note consists of six chapters. Chapter one deals with the definitions, types and causes of Disaster . Chapter two describes the i factors leading to disasters; with emphasis to deforestation, drought, floods, fires, air pollution and global warming . Chapter three deals with the consequences of Disaster such as economic losses, social reactions and factors that intensify these reactions and consequences of population displacement are discussed. Chapter four discusses Disaster management; risk reduction measures: Disaster Preparedness , Disaster response, Disaster mitigation and Disaster recovery are explained in the chapter.

7 Chapter five entertains the most prevailing disasters in Ethiopia. Chapters six discusses the role of primary health care unit team in the event of Disaster respectively. The preparation of this material should be understood as a process of compiling and organizing items from different sources. We do not claim that the material is an original work and hence due gratitude is extended to the authors of books and other materials that served as source for this formulation. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative/ The Carter Center (EPHTI/TCC) for initiating, coordinating and financing the preparation of this lecture note.

8 Our gratitude is also extended to the Jimma University for its material support and allowing us to work on the teaching material. We are deeply indebted to those colleagues who have taken their valuable time to read through the draft document and provided us constructive comments. Dr. Fissehaye Alemseged and Dr. Amare Deribew, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health Faculty, Jimma University, are highly acknowledged in this regard. They were also instrumental in providing some reference materials. Our gratitude should also go to Ato Dereje Ayele, the lecture note coordinator, a dedicated and highly responsible public health professional, for his meticulous follow up and immense contribution during the review of the draft document.

9 Drs. Mesfin Addise, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Tadesse Anteneh and Bekele Kebede, from Addis Ababa University, University of Gondar, Hawassa University and Defense University College respectively, have also contributed immensely. We therefore extend our gratitude to them. iii Last but not least, the contributions of two senior public health professionals, Professor Ahmed Ali, Professor of epidemiology at Addis Ababa University and Gebre Amanuel Teka, an Associate Professor of Environmental health are highly acknowledged. iv Table of Contents Page Preface.

10 I Acknowledgements .. iii Table of Contents .. v List of Tables ..viii List of Figures .. ix Chapter One: What is Learning Types of Disaster ..8. Natural Human (Technological) Disasters ..14. Phases of Disaster ..18. Chapter Two: Factors Leading To Learning Deforestation ..23. Drought and Pest Tsunamis ..46. Earthquakes ..47. v Pollution and health global Ozone Tornado ..71. Explosions ..83. Chapter Three: consequences of Disaster ..87. Learning consequences of Disaster ..87. Social Factors which may affect Public Health Impact of Disasters.


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