Moral hazard

The Power of Vulnerability As the development of the society, competition becomes stronger and stronger. Most of the people have high pressure of work because they think they are not good enough to compete with others. In order to show their abilities, they try to hide their weakness. When we talk about vulnerability, we will be unsatisfied with ourselves because we think that it’s the downside of our life. Brown gives us new ideas of vulnerability. If a person prefers to show his…

Even newcomers to preparing for disaster or prepping, as it’s called, needn’t fear an Ebola pandemic if they get ready ahead of time. Stocking up is key—if you have supplies at home, you won’t need to make a dangerous run to the store. Pandemics usually mean quarantines, which might include self-quarantine for you and your family. If that’s the case, what five items should you stock up to be ready for an Ebola pandemic situation? The Basics: Water, Food, Sanitation, Entertainment Taken in order…

During this week’s readings, you will learn about human response to hazards, disasters, emergencies, or catastrophes. For this assignment, discuss how you think you would respond to a hurricane, a terrorist incident, and a home fire. How are your natural responses similar or different from the guidelines provided in the text? Why do you think these similarities and differences occur? As a resident of a hurricane prone area, we prepare by stocking up on supplies like food, water, toiletries, and…

According to the World Health Organization Emergency Response Framework, from 2001- 2010 an average of more than 700 natural and technological emergencies occur globally every year, affecting approximately 270 million people and causing over 130,000 deaths annually (p.9). The availability of emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the world varies due to each country’s government, size, population, culture, gross to domestic product, terrain, and adopted EMS delivery models. Consequently,…

probability of negative health effects in humans who may be exposed to hazards in the environment. In this regard, a risk assessment applies to the scenario because it presents data of an environmental factor – the elevated concentration of lead in the soil at the child’s school which is harmful for children’s health. In conducting a risk assessment in the given situation, the following steps will be sequentially followed: “hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment,…

Hello Everyone, I’m going to go over Hazard recognition which is defined “as the process of identifying agents or conditions which have the potential of causing harm to a worker’s health and safety”. It is a basic concept but is very important topic that many people can become complacent too, especially on the smaller aspects of the job; like walking into someone back yard and not noticing the “Beware of Dog Sign, or stepping out of the truck if your off roads and not noticing a hole or divot…

thing for sure, there has to be a consideration for all laws and policies when constructing a comprehensive plan for each community. When planners are discussing recovery and mitigation strategies, they have to consider both as the same. They do go hand in hand together. Schwab notes that when proper mitigation efforts have been defined in a plan that the recovery strategies will benefit the recovery efforts (p.24). Of course, when discussing the two areas during the planning process, they are…

Introduction Disaster management is a complex activity which includes pre and post disaster activities. Pre disaster activities are those of mitigation and preparedness, post disaster activities are those of response and recovery (Clary 1985; Prater & Lindell 2000; Haddow, Bullock and Coppola et al., 2008). Taken together these activities are referred, by emergency management practitioners and scholars, as (a four phases) the comprehensive emergency management cycle which comprises four phases…

My organization, Camp Noah, is a resilience and preparedness day camp that serves elementary age children in communities that have been impacted by disaster and/or crisis. Our mission is to serve children who have been impacted by a traumatic event and/or experience in their own community by engaging and storytelling. The overall problem that our organization works to solve is the uprooting of normalcy and mental impact that the children are experiencing in the long-term recovery stage after a…

Jimmy Morgan, I agree that anytime an organization attempts to make assessments there will be roadblocks. You will always have members who feel it is not necessary or that you are singling them out when you are really trying to improve the organizations emergency preparedness. Member of organizations who are not invested will usually be the ones who resist the most. Some of the reasons these members might resist are their lack of knowledge or skills. Another resistance that might come from…