Disaster can have varying physical, social and political impacts across the affected population. The physical impact largely includes the causalities of human lives and damages of the properties, animals and crops. Likewise, the social impact includes psychological, socioeconomic, demographic and political factors. In this, the psychological factor causes negative psychological responses (Gerrity and Flynn, 1997) and also the positive impact as evident in the increased family and social bonding at household and community level. In terms of economic impact, it is likely to reduce household income in general and worsen poverty among poor households in particular. Bolin (1985) identified a linkage between housing and mental health issues in …show more content…
However emerging literature (?) suggests that it is not fully possible to return to what existed before as such situation would reproduce its previous hazardous vulnerability. In this sense, recovery can be seen as a forward looking process of resilient community building supported by the effective public reconstruction policy. In other words, it is seen as an opportunity to ‘build back better (BBB)’- a concept that refers to the possibilities for enhancing resilience across the community’s physical, social and economic states (Cinton , 2006; Kennedy , et al., 2008; Fan , 2013). In the conferred sense of definition, BBB is defined as the use of the recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction phases after a disaster to increase the resilience of nations and communities through integrating disaster risk reduction measures into the restoration of physical infrastructure and societal systems, and into the revitalization of livelihoods, economies and the environment (UNISDR, 2009). Similarly, BBB is used as the concept to describe recovery measures that contribute to the reduction of future disaster risk (Sendai Framework , …show more content…
It tends to ignore important social issues like community consultation and real participation in recovery of socio-culturally compatible housing (Ruwanpura , 2009; Tas , 2010) and psychological recovery (Kennedy et al., 2008). Researchers argue for increased community involvement throughout the recovery process to inform community of government’s initiatives (Iglesias et al. , 2009) and, to identify the specific needs of the community and involve them in decision making process (Cinton , 2006). Research findings indicate that the community based understanding of local needs lead to appropriate designs (Boen and Jigyasu 2005 , Ganapati and Ganapati 2009 ) for better social recovery from the physical and social impacts of the disasters. The exclusion of house owners and their local needs may result into modification or dismantling or abandoned (Barakat 2003) . If social recovery is not given due consideration in the disaster recovery strategies and only physical recovery is emphasized, even the inclusion of house owner in the decision making process it will have limited outcome. Maynard, et. al. (2017) states that there is a positive effect on the safety perception of the affected house owners in owner-driven reconstruction but the evidence of safe construction techniques cannot be ensured. Several studies (Nigg, 1995 ; El
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Drea Knufken’s thesis statement is that “As a society, we’ve acquired an immunity to crisis” (510-512). This means that humans in general, or citizens of the world, have become completely desensitized to disasters, we think of them as just another headline, without any understanding of their impact upon fellow
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While it may seem like human survival after a traumatic event may be anarchy, yet after chaos there can be order, humans come together in light of horrible events and even in the worst disaster culture will survive. Therefore, humanity is not in as much trouble as it can be assumed in case of disaster.
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According to The World Health Organisation (WHO) a Social Determinant of Health “Are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age” Social determinates of health (The World Health Organisation, 2017). (Charted institute of Environmental Health, 2015) says that poor housing can lead to poor health and intensify existing health conditions meaning housing is a key determinant of health as it affects people from birth to older age. Throughout this essay the physical mental health needs of individuals, families and communities will be shown and how housing may affect this.
The literature specifically highlights the effects of Hurricane Dean on the community of Portland Cottage. The literature relieved that there are resources outside of the government that is available to communities that can assist in the disaster recovery process. In addition, it outlined the government’s role in disaster management in a general and presented the institutional framework as it exists in Jamaica. There are a number of key stakeholders in the disaster recovery process and the roles they played were outlined. These factors and perspectives now determine the basis on which the research and methodology are based.
Recovery based practice is not a new concept within mental health, although the term ‘Recovery’ has came to the forefront in recent times with the new Mental Health Act being introduced. Over the past years, mental health services has become increasingly led by consumers, with recovery as a key feature in treatment. Recovery-orientated mental health practice has become a focus globally and is now incorporated in most mental health policies. Despite this, studies prove that many consumer's feel the principles of recovery are not included in their care (Gale and Marshall-Lucette, 2012). A professional focus on recovery is important as it provides an insight into how consumer's feel their care can be improved (Aston and Coffey, 2012). It also helps them to realise what abilities and qualities they possess (Dorrer and Schinkel, 2008). The word recovery has different meanings to people, however, the true understanding of the word remains limited.Recovery is about building a meaningful and satisfying life, as defined by the individual themselves, no matter which stage of their illness. Davidson et al (2007), described recovery as ‘having an identity separate from ones condition and having a life that is satisfying, fulfilling, and contributing to others despite of or within the limitations imposed by the condition’. Recovery provides a new way of thinking in mental health system.
Depending on who you ask, and what side of the aisle they reside on, you could be led to believe the economy is making a dramatic recovery as of lately. However, there is just as strong of an argument that the information is diluted due to false positives in the numbers. The Fed is reviewing whether or not to increase interest rates as soon as October, 2014. A strong influence on this decision is based on the unemployment rate dropping to 6.3% and the creation of 288,000 new jobs in April. Where this number gets misrepresented is best described by John Briggs, head of cross asset strategy at RBS, "It's a good number
All around the world, there are thousands upon thousands of natural hazardous events that occur during ones’ day, week, and even lifetime. In fact, within the past couple of years, natural hazard events have become more and more frequent as the years go by and have permanently changed millions of lives due to great loss. In this journal assignment, I chose a weather related event such as Hurricane Katrina and an internal process such as the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Thus, in this paper I will discuss the importance of each event and how they made an impact on society, as well as how each event has some major differences when it comes to the characteristics, environmental impacts, and where/when, etc.
This is because decent housing has been established to be a key determinant of mental health and
The purpose of this paper is to discuss potential disasters that could affect a community and cause mass casualties. Further discussion will include who is responsible for the management preparedness, what barriers must be considered and finally this paper will discuss the health care facilities role in emergency supplies and care of the patient in a disaster situation. The Community Communities throughout the country and the world are susceptible to disasters. The environment and location of a community often predisposes a greater susceptibility to the type of disaster. For example, Central Pennsylvania would not be susceptible to an avalanche, however, communities in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would have increased vulnerability.
Of the four phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, perhaps the place that individuals can make the biggest difference in their own state of resiliency and survival of a disaster is in the preparedness phase. Being prepared before a disaster strikes makes sense yet many people fail to take even simple, precautionary steps to reduce the consequences of destruction and mayhem produced by natural events such as earthquakes, volcanos and tornados (see Paton et al, 2001, Mileti and Peek, 2002; Tierney, 1993, Tierney et al, 2001).