NUTRITION IN EMERGENCY
INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION 2. EARTHQUAKE 3. WAR 4. DROUGHT 5. TSUNAMI 6. SUMMARY
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INTRODUCTION Millions of people are affected by natural and man-made disasters each year.. You run the risk of suffering bodily harm or death in a disaster. Additionally, you may lose your community, possessions, and home. Such But do such devastation translate stressors place you in danger for close to home and actual medical into a food and/or nutrition crisis? Hence the urgency of mobilizing conditions. . The effect can needs assessment teams to define the frequently be felt physically, actual food, nutrition, health, and other needs of affected people. mentally, and emotionally at the individual level. Cataclysmic events cause individual injury or disease. The deficiency of assets, security and admittance to safe house can prompt enormous populace relocations in lessercreated nations.
Nutritional Priorities There are four essential considerations that need to be made if life and health are to be preserved during a natural The priority ought to be, in disaster: particular, securing the minimum 1) that people drink enough water, levels of water and energy that are required from the moment aid is 2) that they eat enough food (with distributed to emergency shelters following a natural disaster. energy coming first, followed by protein and water-soluble vitamins), 3) that their food is safe (clean), and 4) that they do as much physical activity as they can.
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