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Final exam package - A Final examination - Answer sheet
(A-1) Check the one correct answer.
____Provide adequate shelter. ____Provide safe drinking water. ____Remove human excrete and liquid and solid wastes. ____Control vectors that transmit disease. ____Ensure food supplies.
(A-2) Rank the following options, with 1 being the highest priority and 4 the lowest.
____Assess the need for drinking water in all communities affected by the disaster. ____Request mobile water purification plants from relief agencies. ____Assure drinking water for victims and relief workers in hospitals and treatment centers. ____Repair the pumping station.
(A-3)Check all of the options below that might be appropriate during the immediate postdisaster period (1-3 days).
____Use existing public buildings such as schools, meeting halls, and churches. ____Encourage people to stay with other family members or friends. ____Establish tent camps to provide shelter. ____Encourage people to construct temporary shelter on their own property.
(A-4) Rank the following options, with 1 being the highest priority and 3 the lowest.
____While warehouses storing perishable food have not been damaged, damaged power lines have put many refrigeration units out of operation.
____Rats now have access to much of the food in storage due to damage to some warehouses.
____Some food supplies may have become contaminated and it is not known if the food is safe for distribution.
(A-5) Check the one correct answer.
____Conduct technical surveys for evaluating and planning the restoration of lifeline services. ____Create a national committee to plan, monitor, and coordinate all reconstruction activities. ____Restore essential environmental health surveillance activities.
(A-6)Check all of the options below where problems caused by the disaster might have been prevented, solved, or reduced by advance planning.
____Damage to civil engineering structures. ____Contamination of food and water supplies. ____Power outages. ____Transportation failures. |