Disaster and older adults

Japan, 2011

New York, 2001

New York, 2001

Alberta, 2016

Alberta, 2016

Public Health role after an emergency

Preserve lifeEnsure safe water and foodEnsure sewage disposalControl infectious diseaseControl environmental risks

What’s missing?

PLAN

PREPARE

PILLS

PETS

PEOPLE

PEOPLE

…what scares me is the human reaction to [natural disasters] and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

- Eli Roth

Thank you!

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