Suchergebnisse

Public health authorities have a crucial role to play in disaster
prevention. They must identify the source of danger and ensure that it
is kept at a level of simple risk bringing into play every preventive
measure to guarantee a minimum level of safety. Outlines the importance
of impact studies – the potential catastrophic agent is identified
and examined with an eye to its reliability and "intrinsic
safety". A second instrument available to public health
authorities is vulnerability analysis, namely the relationship between
the environment and the population. Stresses the role of education as a
"social" intervention in encouraging knowledge and the
adoption of a behaviour which will diminish the hazard factors and
increase the protection factors.