Name : Tiffanny Ocktivianie Tobing

SRN : 6411419029

Rombel : 5B/IUP

1. What kind of differences between the disaster epidemiology with disease epidemiology?
Disaster epidemiology assesses the short and long-term adverse health effects of disasters
to help guide emergency response and recovery efforts and predict consequences of
future disasters, that can provide situational awareness that the information can help us to
understand and plan the response to gather the appropriate resources. Diseases
epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease development and determinants of
disease, based on data collection, in order to prevent the development of disease and to
form disease prevention programs as early as possible. In my opinion, the difference
between disaster epidemiology and disease epidemiology is the way of collecting data,
this is because disaster epidemiology is difficult to collect data, because disasters rarely
occur and if they occur only a few impacts on health will be experienced by humans, for
example there is a flood disaster that has an impact on the emergence of leptospira
disease. , while for epidemiological disease it often occurs and data from previous studies
or data from medical records is possible to obtain. Disease epidemiology also studies the
distribution of the spread of disease, which pays attention to the development of disease
from year to year, while disaster epidemiology pays attention to the rapid response to
deal with the future disasters.
2. How the epidemiology works in disaster epidemiology?
The role of epidemiology in disaster epidemiology is to assess the short and long-term
adverse of health effects of disasters to help and guide the emergency response in order to
predict and prevent the consequences of future disasters, the main objectives of disaster
epidemiology such as:
a. Prevent the number of deaths, illnesses and injuries caused by disasters
b. Provide timely and accurate health information for decision makers
c. Improve the prevention and mitigation strategies for future disasters by collecting
information for future response preparation
 References
CDC. (2012, May 18). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from Principles of
Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition:
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section1.html
CDC. (2019, September 23). Disaster Epidemiology and Response . Retrieved from Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention:
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hsb/disaster/epidemiology.htm