ASPECTOS EPIDEMIOLOGICOS PARA LA PLANEACION DE LA ATENCION EN CASOS DE DESASTRE
Abstract
Disaster has been defined as an ecological disturbance that exceeds the adjustment capacity of the affected community (1).
The W.H.O. defines it as “a situation involving serious and immediate unforeseen threats to public health.
The Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (C.C.M.S.) has defined disaster as an act of nature or man whose threat is of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant emergency assistance. (2).
In any case, whatever the definition of a disaster may be, the fact is that it is a sudden or foreseen situation that exceeds expectations and that, due to its magnitude, requires the mobilization of the personnel of the affected area, of the country to which the area belongs and eventually of other countries, in order to attend to the people and the environment in such a way that the consequences may be the least possible, and to avoid new disasters.
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