Journal Article

COVID-19 as a Natural Disaster: Focusing on Exposure and Vulnerability for Response

Seddighi, Hamed

2020

Overview

4 The World Bank discussed in a report that COVID-19 affects men and women differently and proposed to greater gender equality in related policies. 5 On the other hand, the COVID-19 consequences will raise vulnerability. 6 Faheem et al. estimated that for each percentage point reduction in the global economy, more than 10 million people are plunged into poverty worldwide. 7 According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, pandemics are classified as a natural hazard. [...]if the governments and non-governmental organizations decided to design an intervention, the entry point should be reducing vulnerabilities of individuals toward COVID-19. In complex systems, such as a country, the cause (policy) and effect (consequences) are often distant in time and space. [...]in the case of COVID-19 interventions, the government with a policy intended to solve the problems of the country.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Civil Defense - methods / Civil Defense - standards / Conflicts of interest / Coronaviruses / COVID-19 / COVID-19 - prevention & control / COVID-19 diagnostic tests / Disaster Planning - methods / Disaster Planning - standards / Gender / Global economy / Humans / Letter to the Editor / Natural disasters / Natural Disasters - prevention & control / NGOs / Nongovernmental organizations / Pandemics / Pandemics - prevention & control / Postal codes / Poverty / Public health / Special Section: COVID-19