Disaster 182
Disaster 182 : There are many definitions of a disaster, and these definitions have been discussed in detail by Al- Mahari and Keller in a recent issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (Volume 12, number 1, pp ). The definitions used seem dependent upon the discipline using the term. Thus, no definition of "disaster" is accepted universally. In the course on Disaster Management published in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Frederick C. Cuny defined a disaster as: "a situation resulting from an environmental phenomenon or armed conflict that produced stress, personal injury, physical damage, and economic disruption of great magnitude."(1) Perez and Thompson in their series on Natural Disasters, define a disaster as: "the occurrence of widespread, severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property, with which the community cannot cope, and during which the affected society undergoes severe disruption."(2) These definitions note that a disaster disrupts the infrastructure of the society stricken by the event. Furthermore, Cuny stresses that the event resulting in a disaster does not comprise the disaster: it is what results from the event, not the precipitating event itself. See: Medical Disaster. See: Definition, Classification, and Scoring of Disaster
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