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Flint is a city located in Michigan, North of Detroit, with a decreasing population of approximately 99,000 residents, 57% of which are African American. 42% of the Flint’s population live below the poverty line, and the average household makes a median income of $24,825 annually, significantly lower compared to the rest of Michigan's average income. The source of Flint’s water crisis was in 2013 when the city decided to switch their water source and supplier from Lake Huron (Detroit’s water) to

made landfall on the gulf coast in New Orleans, Louisiana. Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29, 2005 as a category 5 with maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. Hurricane Katrina left an unprepared city in complete devastation after many warnings were ignored, along with delayed responses from government officials, and billions of dollars spent to rebuild. The city of New Orleans lies six feet below sea level and is surrounded by large bodies of water. The main waterways surrounding New

They work collectively to establish a comprehensive framework for guidelines that try to recognize the open use of an all-inclusive recovery system to address short and long-term recovery goals and asses needs for community support of the affected population (United Nations Development Programme, 2015). The PDNA entails the use of four key factors essential for the recovery effort, health

In 21st century, more frequently crisis caused by extreme weather let us realized our inability. We can not only deal with the terrible consequences caused by disaster, we need to find a method to reduce the damage of disaster. “Resilience” is put forward to deal with the natural disaster. As the greenhouse effect aggravates, frozen earth begins to melt, sea level starts to rise and precipitation patterns are changing. Followed by extreme weather, such as hurricane, tsunami, flood, extreme heat,

Wisconsin 's Emergency State Responders Is Wisconsin ready for a natural disaster? Can emergency responders be ready at any given moment? Are there ways you can be prepare? While climate changes, this also changes the way emergencies would normally respond. "We work hand in hand with the Wisconsin National Guard along with local, tribal, state and federal agencies to provide help and support to communities and people in Wisconsin during and emergency or disaster, it starts with planning and

Whether the occurrence of a disaster emergency is triggered by a natural or man-made event (either by intentional, or accidental means), critical steps should be taken to evaluate and reduce the risks of public endangerment. The desire is to prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, protect against environmental hazards, prevent injuries, promote and encourage informed risk/ beneficial decision making, respond to disasters and assist communities in recovery, and assure the quality and accessibility

The seven Prevention core capabilities as listed in the National Prevention Framework are planning; public information and warning; operational coordination; forensics and attribution; intelligence and information sharing; interdiction and disruption; and screening, search, and detection (National Prevention Framework, 2013). “The National Protection Framework describes what

Agency notifies provincial and territorial authorities. April 22, 2009: Agency’s Health Portfolio Emergency Operations Centre (HPEOC) is activated to level 2. April 23, 2009: The National Microbiology Laboratory confirms H1N1 influenza in Mexican specimens. The HPEOC is activated to level 3. April 25, 2009: Director General of the World Health Organization declares the outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern”. April 26, 2009: The Agency confirms the first case

The government of California, however, has not made many changes to the safety regulations and rules for emergency preparedness to accommodate these findings (California Seismic Safety Commission). If anyone in California wants a chance of surviving the earthquake to come, then some changes need to be made concerning building regulations, emergency routes and safety procedures, and emergency responders’ training in responding

Alarming Emergency: Improving the Effectiveness of Public Health Workers Response Humanitarian emergencies affect millions of people annually and they can be in the form of either conflicts or disasters. Since 1990, natural disasters have affected more than 217 million people annually and about 300 million people live in the midst of violence and unsecure environment (Leaning & Guha-Sapir, 2013). In mission cases for countries that are experiencing conflict, refugees and internally displaced individuals