NUR4636 FNU Week 7 Community Health Nursing Discussion

DISASTER IN THE COMMUNITY 1 Karen Echenique Florida National University Nursing Department BSN Program NUR 4636 – Community Health Nursing Prof. Eddie Cruz, RN MSN October 15, 2019 DISASTER IN THE COMMUNITY 2 Question 1: Vagrancy is related to colossal wellbeing disparities, including shorter future, higher dreariness and more prominent use of intense medical clinic administrations. Seen through the perspective of social determinants, vagrancy is a key driver of weakness, yet vagrancy itself results from amassed unfriendly social and financial conditions. To be sure, in destitute individuals, the social determinants of vagrancy and wellbeing imbalances are frequently interlaced, and long haul vagrancy further worsens weakness. Colossal wellbeing disparities are found among individuals encountering vagrancy. Being destitute is related to a shorter future, higher dismalness and more prominent utilization of intense medical clinic administrations. Individuals encountering vagrancy are additionally less inclined to get to essential and preventive wellbeing administrations bringing about expanded hazard for some other time organize finding of malady, poor control of sensible conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes) and hospitalization for avoidable health issues (e.g., skin or respiratory conditions). Question 2: Vagrancy and destitution are inseparably connected. Individuals who are ruined are as often as possible unfit to pay for necessities, for example, lodging, nourishment, childcare, social insurance, and instruction. Neediness can mean an individual is one ailment, one mishap, or one paycheck away from living in the city. Individual and social components apply to the individual conditions of an individual encountering vagrancy, and may include: horrendous accidents (for example house fire or employment misfortune), individual emergency (for example family separation or aggressive behavior at home), emotional wellness and addictions challenges (counting mind damage and fetal liquor disorder), which can be both a reason and result of vagrancy and physical medical issues or handicaps. Social issues can incorporate family savagery and misuse, addictions, and emotional wellness issues of other relatives and extraordinary neediness. Frameworks disappointments happen when different frameworks of consideration and backing come up short, requiring defenseless individuals to go to the vagrancy area when other standard administrations could have avoided this need. Instances of frameworks disappointments incorporate troublesome advances from youngster welfare, deficient release getting ready for individuals leaving emergency clinics, revisions, and psychological wellness and addictions offices and an absence of help for migrants and displaced people. DISASTER IN THE COMMUNITY 3 Question 3: Counteractive action centers around anticipating human perils, essentially from potential catastrophic events or fear monger (both physical and natural) assaults. Preventive measures are intended to give progressively lasting security from calamities; in any case, not all debacles can be averted. NUR4636 FNU Week 7 Community Health Nursing Discussion

The danger of death toll and damage can be restricted with great departure plans, natural arranging and structure norms. Readiness is a ceaseless cycle of arranging, sorting out, preparing, working out, assessing, and making a remedial move. Preparing and practicing plans is the foundation of readiness which spotlights on availability to react to all-risks episodes and crises. Recovery includes those activities that continue past the emergency time allotment to restore essential system limits and begin to supervise change tries. The recovery stage starts following the hazard to human life has subsided. The target of the recovery stage is to take the affected zone back fairly shared trait. Question 4: Consistently, a huge number of individuals are influenced by both human-caused and catastrophic events. Debacles might be blasts, seismic tremors, floods, sea tempests, tornados, or flames. In a debacle, you face the risk of death or physical damage. You may likewise lose your home, assets, and network. Such stressors place you in danger for enthusiastic and physical medical issues. Cataclysmic events cause the demolition of property, loss of budgetary assets, and individual damage or sickness. The loss of assets, security, and access to safe houses can prompt huge populace movements in lesser-created countries. Disasters might be blasts, seismic tremors, floods, sea tempests, tornados, or flames. In a calamity, you face the risk of death or physical damage. You may likewise lose your home, assets, and network. Such stressors place you in danger for enthusiastic and physical medical issues. In the wake of encountering a catastrophic event, numerous people create serious post-horrible pressure issue or pull back into conditions of despondency. Others create a negative relationship with nature, in progressively created countries; this can likewise prompt critical populace relocations. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina crushed New Orleans and the Mississippi bay coast. In New Orleans, an excess of 200,000 homes were wrecked; more than 70 percent of the occupant populace must be in any event briefly migrated outside of the more noteworthy New Orleans region. Also, tremendous aggregates of government help were important to help kick off recuperation endeavors in the city and encompassing the area. Appraisals of over $105 to $150 billion in decreased assessment income, loss of foundation, cost of recovery endeavors, and loss of ordinary income were lost to the city. DISASTER IN THE COMMUNITY 4 “Causes Of Homelessness.” Causes Of Homelessness | The Homeless Hub, www.homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/homelessness-101/causeshomelessness. “The Five Phases of Emergency Management.” The Five Phases of Emergency Management | Bexar County, TX – Official Website, www.bexar.org/694/FivePhases. Sharrieff, Malik. “The Impact of Natural Disasters.” Sciencing, 2 Mar. 2019, sciencing.com/impact-natural-disasters-5502440.html. Running head: COMMUNITY 1 Lisandra Alejo Florida National University Nursing Department BSN Program NUR 4636 – Community Health Nursing Prof. Eddie Cruz, RN MSN October 16, 2019 COMMUNITY 2 1. Identify and discuss the major health problems among the various homeless aggregates in your community. Being homeless is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to an individual. It risks contracting infectious diseases. Among the most hazardous is the Hepatitis A infection, which spreads through the consumption of contaminated food and water. CDC reports show that the homeless are among the people with the highest risk of suffering the virus. That keeps the spread of this infection among the homeless high (Dai, 2018). Influenza is also a typical outbreak, especially with the homeless. Other diseases include sexually transmitted illnesses, including HIV/AIDs. The spread is a result of a lack of practice protected sex. Hepatitis B and C, strep throat, tuberculosis, and gastroenteritis also attack homeless individuals. Being homeless, therefore, puts one in the risk of facing harsh health challenges that can result in loss of his or her life. 2. Mention and discuss three factors that contribute to homelessness and how affects your community In the US, there more than 500, 000 people who live in the streets. That is not a small number and shows the size of the population risk of contracting infectious diseases. There are a lot of factors that contribute to homelessness among the citizens and include: Expensive Housing Constructions in towns are high, seeking to solve the issue of house scarcity. The problem is that, even where the houses are available in large numbers, the prices are high, and not many can afford them (Dai, 2018). High rates force more than 7 million COMMUNITY 3 people to share homes as an extended family instead of living as nuclear families. It’s, however, good to note that houses are available, but the prices are the challenge. Insufficient Income CDC reports show that more than 15% of the US population lives below or at the poverty line. Combining the expensive housing problem, house scarcity, and low incomes, this group of people would spend their profits on rent and lack cash for their housing needs. The high taxes do also lead to extreme poverty (Habanik, 2018). NUR4636 FNU Week 7 Community Health Nursing Discussion

The high cost of living within the US is part of the low incomes that leads to increased poverty among the US nationals. Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Reports show that more than a quarter of the homeless individuals in the US reflects signs of mental illness and half of this number engaged in substance abuse (Habanik, 2018). Most of the mentally ill homeless people accept treatment, and rehabilitation services work successfully in this matter. 3. Mention and discuss the stages of disaster management. Managing a disaster can be complicated and a difficult task to handle. There are four major stages that one must consider handling the catastrophe completely. These include; Mitigations Mitigations are prevention measures that reduce the risk of a disaster occurring or reducing its negative impact (Tsadikovich, 2019). Prevention measures include laws and regulations, relocations, enforcing construction codes, building earthquake engineered COMMUNITY 4 roads, and bridges, among other practices. These practices reduce the chances of a disaster occurring or help to deal with the situation when it arises. Preparedness These are plan forms that minimize property damages when a disaster occurs. They ensure the presence of a quick response when the disaster strikes (Tsadikovich, 2019). Readiness means having a plan and training people on rescue techniques. Response These are actions taken to reduce mortality rates. They help prevent further damages and involve putting one’s preparedness into action. It revolves around searching and rescuing, firefighting, triage, and relocation of medical records, among other activities. Recovery These are actions taken to return to normal after the disaster. These entails repairing the building and building new homes. 4. Discuss the impact of disasters on a community The effects of a disaster are not only personal as they affect the whole community. That is so as there are disasters that do not modify the human community directly. Accidents cause property destruction, loss of capital and resources, and results in personal injuries (Tsadikovich, 2019). Destruction of properties results in a massive migration of the population. Such movement affects the community’s culture and demographics. The city must, therefore, consider estimating its population. To recover the lost resources is not a simple task. As a result, the community suffers economy COMMUNITY 5 destruction. Despite the negative side of the disaster effects, some communities secure an opportunity to build even better communities than what they had before. Homelessness and disasters are among the two significant factors that negatively affect the community. Having a plan to deal with the two, however, would be a better way of securing America’s health status. COMMUNITY 6 References Dai, L. Z. (2018). The health issues of the homeless and the homeless issues of the illhealth. Socio-Economic Planning Science. Habanik, T. (2018). Mental health problems as one of the factors in the development and persistence of homelessness. Kontkt. Tsadikovich, D. K. (2019). Controlled information spread for population preparedness in disaster operations management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. …