Medical Disaster 1
Medical Disaster 1 : Definition adopted by the World Health Organization and the United Nations as established by Gunn: "the result of a vast ecological breakdown in the relationships between man and his environment, a serious and sudden (or slow, as in drought) disruption on such a scale that the stricken community needs extraordinary efforts to cope with it, often with outside help or international aid."(3) This definition also indicates that it is the impact on society that constitutes the disaster, not the event that is the disaster
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