1. For health care providers, a practical definition of disaster is any situatio
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1. For health care providers, a practical definition of disaster is any situation where the numbers of patients or severity of illness exceeds the ability of the facility or system to care for them, requring external assistance:
a. True
b. False
2. After a disaster, governmental and relief organizations must:
a. prioritize needs
b. deliver services
c. Both 1 & 2
3. A rapid needs assessment is one way to quickly get information after a disaster:
a. True
b. False
4. Which of the following are objectives of a rapid needs assessment?
a. Describe the effects of health
b. Determine critical needs
c. Provide accurate and precise information for decision making
d. Evaluate the effectiveness of relief programs
e. Prevent adverse health effects
f. All of the above
5. In a disaster situation two things that we want to know about (aka the indicators of a disaster situation) are health and needs:
a. True
b. False
6. Which of the following would you be well advised to include in a rapid needs assessment?
a. Demographic profile
b. Community health information
c. Health status of affected populations
d. Environmental conditions
e. Community needs and available resources
f. All of the above
7. The purposes of a risk assessment how do you characterize the at-risk population?
a. Geography/location
b. Proximity to a specifc location
c. Birth cohort
d. All of the above
8. The WHO epi methods (aka the 30 x 7 cluster sampling method) has been adapted for use in disaster sampling to determine the medical needs of the population which has been affected by the disaster:
a. True
b. False
9. Disaster pose unique sampling challenges such as:
a. Availability of a sampling frame
b. Urgency for results to guide actions
c. Operations in harse environments
d. Displacement of affected populations
e. All of the above
Explanation / Answer
Answer 1 b. False.
Answer 2 c. Both 1 and 2.
Answer 3 a. True.
Answer 4 f. All of the above.
Answer 5 a. True
Answer 6 f. All of the above
Answer 7 d. All of the above
Answer 8 a. True.
Answer 9 e. All of the above
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