CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters
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The pandemic was a great breakthrough for the significant growth of e-sports. The author emphasizes how this generation “found even more escape and engagement in its smartphones and consoles” (771). This comes to show how the decline within traditional sports grew even more with the pandemic. The sudden change in events of the pandemic and prolonged boredom thus caused the parents to be held accountable for this new growing
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The Sanitation Problems of the Black Death The bubonic plague is a bacterial disease that is considered one of the most lethal in history. Recorded pandemics of the plague reach back to 541 A.D. and minor epidemics can still be found around the world (Plague). The plague consists of a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. This bacterium has the ability to mutate quickly and can easily destroy the immune system of the infected person‚ “it does this by injecting toxins into defense cells such as macrophages
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Avian influenza‚ also known as the bird flu‚ is a viral infection that spreads through birds. There is currently a certain strain of the bird flu called H5N1 that is spreading in poultry in Egypt and Asia. The virus is deadly to birds‚ as well as any mammal or human who come in contact with the birds. The first case of H5N1 in humans was reported to be in Hong Kong in 1997‚ and the virus has reemerged in 2003/2004 in Asia‚ Europe and Africa. Nearly 60 percent of the people with the virus has died
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skin-to-skin contact. What steps can we take to reduce the spread of microorganisms? Washing your hands regularly. Mutation and pandemics Why can new strains of pathogen spread quickly? What is an epidemic? A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time What is a pandemic? A disease prevalent over a whole country or the world Why are pandemics potentially more likely now than they were 100 years ago? Because they are becoming more immune to antibiotics.
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OKEYA AYODEJI BAMIDELE CLI/2007/198 COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT TOPIC PROPOSAL GROUP B1 Title of the Topic ASSESSMENT OF BIRTH PREPAREDNESS AND COMPLICATION READINESS AMONG WOMEN IN ILE IFE‚ NIGERIA. 1. Need for the study Motherhood is a great responsibility and it is woman’s highest crown of honour Pregnancy is the vital event in the life of a woman. It needs special attention from the time of conception to the postnatal stage. Antenatal care services are important for ensuring the reproductive
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1 BUILDING A ROADMAP FOR HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH (Public Health Uses of Electronic Health Record Data) WHITE PAPER 2007 2 CONTENTS List of Authors: PHDSC - IHE Task Force Participants ……………………………………3 Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………5 What is Public Health?....................................................................................................6 Mission……………………………………………………………………………………..……..6 Stakeholders……………………………………………………………………………
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in our commemorations of independence. However‚ of late the country has been grappling with the HIV/AIDS pandemic‚ a deadly evil of magnitude proportions with which no refuge exists. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana has graduated to being a vicious threat against humanity in spite of sexual orientation‚ age or social status. “Southern Africa is the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2003 Botswana had an HIV/AIDS prevalence estimated at 37.3%‚ second highest in Southern Africa after
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U.S. Healthcare Delivery Readiness and Effectiveness for a Bioterrorism Event Health Service Systems The topic of my course project is the readiness and effectiveness of the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System in responding to a widespread bioterrorist event. Since the September 11th terrorist attacks‚ the United States has never been in such a state of alert to prepare for a bioterrorist attack. The U.S. Healthcare system will contribute greatly in such an event. The U.S. Healthcare
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1918 saw the most famous influenza pandemic—a worldwide epidemic that caused nearly 50 million deaths—when a H1N1 influenza A virus of partial avian origin infected over one-third of the world’s population [1]. Within the last century‚ there have been four pandemics caused by influenza A with the most recent in 2009 when a swine-like H1N1 virus entered the human population. The increase in whole genome sequencing‚ computational methods‚ and surveillance of bird populations [2]‚ as well as households
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