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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

PPT On Disaster Management

Presentation On Disaster Management
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Disaster Management Presentation Transcript:
1.IDENTIFYING NEED FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO DISABILITY & DISASTER RESPONSE

2.A disaster as ‘any occurrence that causes damage, economic destruction, loss of human life and deterioration in health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extra ordinary response from outside the affected community’.

3.Types
Meteorological 
  Hurricanes, cyclones,  
  tornadoes and typhoons                            
Snowstorms, floods, heavy   
 rains, thunderstorms
 Droughts and famine
Topographical
 Earthquakes
  Landslides
 Tsunami
Environmental
  Epidemics

4.Definitions
Disability is any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. (WHO)
 Research is a careful search, a critical inquiry, a diligent investigation or examinatation in seeking new facts or principles .

5.PERSONS WITH DISAB ILITIES

6.Need for Research related to disability& Disaster
Pre-disaster action is profitable than post disaster reaction
Research on disasters is problematic .
Special needs of disadvantaged  women, such as women with disabilities needs to be better researched.
Disability is the consequences of disasters
Feed back from disabilities persons indicates that emergency plans are not inclusive and also not accessible.

7.Poverty-Vulnerability-Disaster-Disability Cycle

8.Action Plan
Conceptual framework.(Infrastructure)
Effective mobilization of resources human, voluntary initiatives, co-ordination & networking.
 Application of scientific methods.
Paradigm shift in disability & disaster related policy making.

9.Conclusion
Very few researches has been done. So
need for research on good technologies and
practices for disaster & disabilities
reduction at present which are appropriate
for implementation in all countries, and to
develop a mechanism for exchanging
(sharing) knowledge between  countries and
regions worldwide. 

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