Natural Disasters and Our Mental Health
Natural Disasters Vocabulary
Natural Disasters and Diseases
Factors That Contribute To A Region's Vulnerability To Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters and Health Care Systems
100
Proven to be some of the most common side effects of natural disasters. Result from great loss and devastation. Can be overlooked during emergencies and usually aren't shown until later on in life.
What is Mental Health Problems?
100
Events caused by nature that result in widespread damage, destruction, and loss.
What is Natural Disasters?
100
Diseases that easily transfer from person to person, such as cholera, chicken pox, the flu, etc. Communities that just experienced natural disasters are likely to experience outbreaks in this category of disease.
What is Communicable Diseases?
100
The amount of natural hazards an area is exposed to.
What is exposure?
100
The organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of people.
What is the health care system?
200
A mental disorder characterized by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
200
Natural hazards such as tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, flooding, etc.
What is Weather Emergencies?
200
The reason why communities that just experienced a natural disaster are more likely to experience outbreaks in disease.
What is these communities have problems with hygiene because people are often all together in small spaces.
200
The levels and conditions of infrastructure, poverty, and nutrition. If these conditions are not good, a region is more likely or _____________ to get hit with a natural disaster.
What is susceptible?
200
What often happens with doctors and natural disasters.
What is they leave the area to escape danger, which results in less help during emergencies.
300
A condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and longer lasting than usual. Along with anxiety, this can occur after a natural disaster.
What is Depression?
300
Likely to suffer from a natural disaster because of various factors.
What is vulnerable?
300
How people can combat deadly disease outbreaks after a natural disaster.
What is washing hands and getting vaccinations?
300
The ability to resist the impact of natural disasters through disaster preparedness.
What is Coping Capacity?
300
What often happens to hospitals, health buildings, medical equipment, and medicines after a natural disaster.
What is they could be destroyed or lost?
400
It is for this reason health professionals urge people in natural disaster ridden communities to return to their daily routines as soon as possible.
What is so that people will not suffer from severe mental health problems following natural disasters?
400
A disorder characterized by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
400
Diseases that easily transfer from person to person, such as cholera, chicken pox, the flu, etc. Communities that just experienced natural disasters are likely to experience outbreaks in this category of disease.
What is Communicable Diseases?
400
The capacity to make structural changes to reduce the impact of natural disasters in the future.
What is Adaptive Capacity?
400
Effects of natural disasters on the healthcare system. (List at least one).
What is loss of medical equipment and medicines; damage done to hospitals and health buildings; doctors leaving the area; etc.
500
The reason why mental health problems are not examined until weeks, months, or years after a natural disaster.
What is most people will suffer from grief and shock following a natural disaster?
500
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience that could result in long term health problems.
What is trauma?
500
The country that experienced a cholera outbreak after a 7.0 earthquake in 2010. The cholera was brought to this country by foreign aid workers.
What is Haiti?
500
The five countries hit by the highest number of natural disasters in the past 20 years. (List at least one to get points, and with each extra country you get correct we'll add 100 points).
What is Indonesia, India, The Philippines, The United States, and China?
500
Child-Centered Spaces.
What is spaces that help families cope after natural disasters occur?
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