Garcia, Alyssa Anne M.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE

There are four types of disaster mainly. These include environmental emergencies,
natural disasters, pandemic disasters, and complex disasters. Disaster prevention is
activities that are designed for provision of permanent disasters protection. Not every
disaster can be prevented and particularly natural disasters; the loss risk of injury and
life can be only mitigated with plans of good evacuation, design standards and
environmental planning.

Disaster preparedness is activities for life loss and damage minimization. Preparedness
is the best way of reducing disasters impact. Disaster relief is a multi-agency
coordinated response of reducing disaster impact and its results of long-term. These
activities may include relocation, rescue, water and food provision, preventing disability
and disease, repair of vital services like transport, provision of temporary shelter and
health care emergency.

Once the needs of emergency has been accomplished and the crisis is initially over,
those affected together with the community supporting them remain vulnerable.
Management of disaster is linked with the development sustainably, in particular with
vulnerable people relation like the ones with disability, children, elderly people and
groups marginalized.