This document defines disaster preparedness as dealing with and avoiding risks through preparing for, supporting communities during, and rebuilding after natural or human-made disasters. It discusses that natural disasters can result from weather, geology, biology or outside space factors, while human-made disasters suddenly occur due to natural, technological or intentional human factors. The document also notes that disasters can threaten severe environmental damage and loss of life and property, and covers types of disasters such as civil conflicts and large-scale epidemics.

3. Objectives:
•Define disaster
preparedness
•Discuss the types of
disasters

4. •is the discipline of dealing
with and avoiding risks.

5. •It is a discipline that involves
preparing, supporting and
rebuilding when natural or
human-made disasters occur

7. •This is an event with a natural, as
opposed to human cause that
results in large-scale loss of life
or damage to property.

8. • Weather
•Geology
•Biology
•Factors outside the earth

9. •These are defined as “sudden-
onset disasters or accidents
resulting from natural,
technological or human-induced
factors or a combination of these

10. •It causes or threatens to cause
severe environmental damage as
well as loss of human lives and
property.

12. •These are situations of disrupted
livelihoods and threats to life
produced by warfare, civil
disturbance, and large-scale
movements of people.

14. •These are epidemic situations
(infectious illnesses) that spread
across the globe affecting every
continent rather than being
confined to one geographic area.