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Week 5: Disaster Preparedness (graded)No unread replies.11 reply.PurposeThis week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcomes (COs).CO 3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (PO 4 and 8)CO 6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO 2)The AssignmentPreparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing.Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years.Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article.Describe how your community was impacted.Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness.GradingTo see view the grading criteria/rubric, please click on the 3 dots in the box at the end of the solid gray bar above the discussion board title and then Show Rubric.Dear Class,Week 5 Objectives:Plan population-focused interventions to address disaster preparedness and other population health problems using a preventive approach to health.Examine the ways public health, healthcare, and other organizations can collaborate using a systems-based approach to prepare for disasters in the community.Consider your past experiences with emergency and disaster situations. Describe anatural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years.Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article. Describe how your community was impacted.Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness.Remember to answer the main discussion question and allsubpartsof the question

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Natural or Man-Made Disaster in Maryland Greenbelt in the Last 20 Years	3
Impact on Community	3
Lessons learnt and Changes to Preparedness	4
References	5
Natural or Man-Made Disaster in Maryland Greenbelt in the Last 20 Years
In September 2017, there occurred a devastating hurricane of category 5, which brought destruction to the locations of Florida, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Maryland Greenbelt was also affected in it. The Saffir - Simpson hurricane scale gave intensity of category 5, which is considered as the deadliest hurricane, and the wind flow was more than 157 mph. It was also the deadliest hurricane of Atlantic, which was experienced in Jeanne 2004. This Atlantic hurricane was calculated as the tenth most intense hurricane recorded until now. 
It is also considered as the most intense hurricane of the world in the year 2017. This Maria hurricane is the third deadliest hurricane in the history of the world. An aggregate of 5740 death has been recorded and several deaths remain unnoticed. The crisis occurred for the people living nearby on a large scale and around of $91.61 billion that is 2017 USD of damage has been estimated. The actual losses are above the estimated amount, which includes human lives, damage to their properties, the renovation work of the affected area (Veenema et al., 2016). Besides,

Week 5: Disaster Preparedness (graded) No unread replies.11 reply. Purpose This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcomes (COs). CO 3: Plan prevention and population-focused...

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