This assignment requires you to reflect on three important components of the disaster health and
emergency management model.
Each topic is based on major themes which are the following:
-Leading change and coordinating effort
Understanding Risks
Communicating about Risk
Partnering with those who effect change
Empowering individuals and communities
Reducing Risks in built environment
Capabilities to support disaster resilience
Each topic should be answered and substantiated by reference to the literature and personal
experience and to be approx. 750 words each.
Topic 1
Please discuss the following statement:
The PPRR model of the disaster cycle has been around for over 20 years and is just as relevant today as
it was when introduced.
Topic 2
Using the CRED database outline the profile and trends of the disaster epidemiology for Australia and
the Oceania region noting its main features with particular comparison with that of the Asian region.
Topic 3
To what extent are emergency managers health emergency co-ordinators and community leaders
influenced by the psycho-social cultural context of major events threatening the health status of a
community.
Word limit:
Three topics of 750 words each
Assignment requirements:
Well-structured argument that answers the question in a word document with the appropriate use of
headings formatting and referencing.
This ASSIGNMENT presents the core knowledge and skill expected of all emergency management and
health professionals and community leaders active in this field. The ASSIGNMENT is based on the
following models:
Disaster epidemiology with regional profile
The National Strategy for Disaster Resilience and the Victorian Emergency
Management Reform
Disaster Management Cycle.
The multidisciplinary planning and response to major events which actually or potentially threaten the
status of a community)
Incident command system
WHO Health Action in Crises Health Security
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