Multidisciplinary Responses to Natural Disasters
The culmination of Tsunamis often leads survivors to display dire health needs, including first aid and emergency care. This situation arises because the destruction brought about by the disaster often enhances their vulnerability to experiencing critical injuries, which lead them to require urgent care. It also exposes them to experiencing shortages in the supply of clean food, freshwater, and decent shelter, which makes them more susceptible to contracting diseases from their environment (World Health Organization, 2011). This situation signals the need for a hospital administration to foster the rapid provision of first aid for victims. In doing this, they ought to ensure to triage resources adequately help practitioners to render care to survivors that display the most urgent needs for health care.
In regards to health education, the situation mostly calls for them to aim to foster preventive care through patient education. For instance, the Japanese Tsunami culminated in the massive destruction of critical infrastructure, including nuclear plants and waterways. This eventuality exposed the risk of survivors to contracting radiation from their environment, which could lead them to develop preventable ailments and death (CNN Library, 2019). The exposure to the masses to unclean water and indecent shelter also enhanced their vulnerability of suffering from extreme cold or contracting waterborne illnesses. It thus signaled the need for health educators to educate them on the strategies they could employ to decrease their susceptibility to infection hence improving their health.
The response by the health administration and educators are similar. Mainly, they both aim to foster the health of the survivors of the tragedy. In pursuing this endeavor, however, health administrators focus primarily on the provision of emergency care to victims. In contrast, health educators focus mostly on promoting preventive care through patient education to dissuade their acquisition of preventable ailments.
References
CNN Library. (2019, March 4). “2011 Japan Earthquake – Tsunami Fast Facts.” Retrieved from
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/17/world/asia/japan-earthquake—tsunami-fast-facts/
World Health Organization. (2011, March 21). “Humanitarian Health Action: FAQs: Japan
Tsunami Concerns.” Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/hac/crises/jpn/faqs_tsunami/en/