DISASTER AWARENESS,
PREPAREDNESS AND
MANAGEMENT
LESSON
1:
Disaster
Management:
Preparedness,
First Aid and
Emergency
Safety
Measures
What is disaster awareness
preparedness and management?
Disaster preparedness refers to
measures taken to prepare for and
reduce the effects of disasters. That is,
to predict and – where possible –
prevent them, mitigate their impact on
vulnerable populations, and respond to
and effectively cope with their
consequences.
DISASTER AWARENESS,
PREPAREDNESS AND MANAGEMENT
• The Philippines is in the circumpacific belt of fire
and typhoon. This being so, the country has always
been subjected to natural disaster and calamities
anytime of the year, in whatever part of the country,
we have been experiencing yearly natural
calamities - floods, typhoons, tornadoes,
earthquakes, drought, tsunamis and volcanic
eruptions which have brought incessant miseries to
our people, loss of lives properties.
• Floods are caused when water overflows from a water body.
• One of the
GEOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE PHILIPPINES
ggest floods in the world is probably the Yellow river in China 1887 which killed between around 900,000.
LOCATION:
• Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the
South China Sea, east of Vietnam
CLIMATE:
• Tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to April); southwest
monsoon (May to October)
TERRAIN:
• Mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
DEFINITION AND RELATED TERMS
CALAMITY
• refers to a situation that is associated with catastrophic events where
several persons are plunged with hardship and suffering that are
caused by problems like shortage of food, clothing, medical care and
other basic necessities.
DISASTERS
• are progressive or sudden events brought about by natural or human-
induced hazards that cause losses and sufferings to consequence of
which results to people and communities undertaking extra- ordinary
DISASTER CONTROL
• refers to the act of limiting the effect of disaster through the
introduction of measures designed to prepare the
inhabitants before, during and after a disaster.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
• the efficient and effective utilization of resources and the
application of measure that will mitigate the impact of
unfortunate events and facilitate return to normalcy and
FLOOD
• a state or condition when water overflows from natural
waterways caused by heavy rainfall resulting in the water
accumulation in low lying areas.
HAZARDS
• are natural or man-induced phenomena or activities, the
presence of which poses a threat to people’s lives, limbs,
properties, and socio-economic conditions.
NATIOANAL DISASTER COORDINATING COUNCIL
• the highest government body responsible in advising the President
of the country on the status of disaster preparedness program and
disaster relief and rehabilitation effort at the national level
POLLUTION
• refers to any discharge of liquid, solid substance or gases into land,
soil, waters, atmosphere, air, or space which will create or render
such environmental elements and atmospheric air harmful or
detrimental or injurious to human beings, animals, plants and the
nature’s environment and ecological balance.
RADIOACTIVE FALL-OUT
• dust particles of Earth and debris, together with the radioactive
materials that cling to them and are drawn up into mushroom
clouds resulting from detonation of a nuclear weapon or devise
and which are carried by the wind and sent back to earth.
REHABILITATION
• refers to the restoration of a person’s economic dependency to a
stable living either physically, economically, socially, or
emotionally.
RELIEF
• refers to anything that is done to alleviate the condition of those
who are suffering from the effects of a calamity/disaster and
who at that time are completely helpless.
RISKS
• refers to the degree or chance and frequency that such hazards
will affect or impact people and communities.
SPACE DEBRIS
• these are remains of artificial satellites and other
components as well as their means of carriage aloft which
fall back to earth.
STATE OF CALAMITY
• it is a condition that is declared by the President of the
country in the event of a widespread destruction to property
and lives due to destructive forces of nature and
emergencies.
VOLCANIC ERUPTION
• an occurrence characterized by an ejection of volcanic materials
such as molten lava, rock fragments, ashes, lahar flow, steam and
other gases through the fissure brought about the tremendous
pressure which forces open the rock formation or steam reservoirs
beneath the Earth’s
VULNERABILITY
• the level of susceptibility or resiliency of the people and communities
against the impact of the prevailing hazards based on the state of
physical, social, and economic conditions in each area.
DISASTER
EQUATION
AND DISASTER
MANAGEMEN
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