Proportional hazards models

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…

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, the poorest and most vulnerable people often have little to no access to EMS. Despite the United States being one of the richest countries in the world, the current EMS system as its faults. When looking at the United States EMS…

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…

The Domestic Preparedness cycle includes prevention, protection, response, and recovery. The Preparedness is about the planning, training, and exercising to increase awareness, performance, and the overall capabilities in all four phases of the preparedness cycle (Cordner, 2016). It includes developing intelligence-collection and information-sharing protocols, developing local response plans, training first responders, identification of critical resources, and development of mutual aid…

Critical analysis of Community Risk Reduction Risk reduction is the modern trend in community as a way to prevent or limiting the dangers from occurring. This program the fire departments should implement will teach and show each hazard or dangerous area within their town. There are a variety of impacts that this program has to the community and fire department. In addition, creating a risk program will provide a strong and highly thought out strategy to tackle this situation. Also, fire…