Turn around. Don't drown.
Mark Keim, MD, MBA
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Mark Keim, MD, MBA
Emergency medicine, Disaster medicine, Public health, Emergency management, Business administration, Public policy, Public speaking
Flood safety relies upon a chain of survival:
Accurate forecasting + Early warning + PUBLIC EDUCATION
Emergency medicine, Disaster medicine, Public health, Emergency management, Business administration, Public policy, Public speaking
9yI agree. Disasters aren't natural
Senior Lecturer at Australian Catholic University School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine (NSW/ACT)
9yMitigation or resilience as they are calling it now is the key to preventing disaster. Teach the children in schools and they will teach their parents ad grandparents. Build in warning systems with back up plans when the technology fails us. I agree with UNISDR - there is no such thing as a natural disaster only natural hazards or extreme environmental events. The disaster relates to choice we make - so as long as we continue to abuse our environment, build unsafely in unsafe, places and marginalize sections of our global community we will have disasters.
Augmenting Health for all @ Global level- WHO and Fellow Public health-United Kingdom
9yThey will be important area to prevent huge loss,particularity urban deluge as they not only hit human safety but their economics also.