Module 4: Disasters from Different Perspective Flashcards
The Different Perspective of Disaster
- Physical Perspective
- Psychological Perspective
- Socio-cultural Perspective
- Economic Perspective
- Political Perspective
- Biological Perspective
Natural disasters generally affect the physical infrastructural facilities, agricultural productivity and even lead to loss of life and cause damage to property.
Physical Perspective
Calamities are phenomena that cause great physical damage in a community infrastructure, its people and their properties, e.g. houses and environmental sources of living.
Physical Perspective
Effects of Physical Disasters
- Injuries
- Physical disabilities or illness
- Sanitation
- Damage in infrastructure
Victims of disasters may suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other serious mental health conditions, which are not being given much attention to by the authorities or even by the victims, themselves.
Psychological Perspective
Disasters are mostly unpredictable, which leave the victims in a state of shock. They tend to deny the loss and try to escape from reality.
Psychological Perspective
Psychological effects of a Disaster:
- distress
- hopelessness
- intrusion/avoidance
- hatred/revenge
- dependence/insecurities
- emotional effects
- cognitive effects
- physical effects
- grief/withdrawn/isolation
- interpersonal effect guilt feeling
- helplessness
- lack of trust
To people who are used to natural calamities like typhoons, flash floods, and volcanic eruptions most citizen would find contentment with what they have at the moment. The culture of “malalampasan din natin ‘to..” belief and “ bahala na ang Diyos” syndrome give hope to most Filipino in the midst of a disaster.
Socio-cultural Perspective
Socio-Cultural Effect of Disasters:
- change in individual roles
- disruption of social relationships and personal connections
Disasters affect the economic condition of a community because they reduce local and international trade. Implementation of a partial and total shut down of local business operations result to a lot of people losing means of living.
Economic Perspective
Economic Effects of Disasters:
- loss of life
- unemployment
- loss of property loss of household articles
- loss of crops
- loss of public infrastructure
Natural disasters are commonly thought to be less politically argumentative than armed conflicts, yet a closer look shows that both the effects of a natural disaster and the resulting distribution of humanitarian aid are profoundly linked to politics.
Political Perspective
Political Effects of a Disaster:
- People who have trust in political institution will assess the government’s risk assessments as credible and accept their hazard policies (Johnson 1999)
- Low level of trust in public institutions therefore means that citizens may ignore the recommendations and disregard the information provided by these institutions (McCaffey 2004).
- If individuals are confident that they will receive sufficient aid from the government when a disaster occurs, they might not be motivated to take measures on their own (King and Kang 2000).
The disturbing effects caused by a prevalent kind of disease or virus in an epidemic or pandemic level is known as _______________.
Biological Disaster (Biological Perspective)
Biological disaster affects large numbers of people 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮.
Ex: Dengue
Epidemic Level
