DRRR Reviewer

An event or phenomenon that causes serious disruptions to a community

• disaster
• emergency

• hazard

• danger

This type of disaster is caused by humans

• Natural disasters

• Complex emergencies

• Environmental emergencies

• Pandemic emergencies

What is the term used to measure the severity and frequency of a hazard?

• Exposure

• Vulnerability

• Disaster Risk

• Risk Factor

This type of Risk Factor affects countries with low budgeting or insufficient funds for disaster related groups

• Age

• Developing Countries

• Third World Countries

• Low or Negative Support

Diseases that appear during a disaster can stay and affect the population even after the disaster has passed

• Food Scarcity

• Health Risk

• Pandemic Emergencies

• Outbreak

Any source of potential damage

• Environment

• Danger

• Hazard

• Exposure

This is how communities face and deal with disasters

• Cultural Perspective

• Economic Perspective

• Socio-Cultural Perspective

• Political Perspective

Infrastructures getting damaged

• Economic Perspective

• Physical Perspective

• Infrastructural Perspective

• Political Perspective

This is generally contained within an area, usually within the country

• Outbreak

• Disease

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

The characteristics and circumstances that make anything susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard

• Risk

• Risk Factor

• Exposure

• Vulnerability