RISK FACTORS IN POPULATION HEALTH SECURITY CRISES, CALAMITIES AND DISASTERS.  RISK MANAGEMENT Cover Image

FACTORI DE RISC LA ADRESA SECURITĂŢII MEDICALE A POPULAŢIEI ÎN SITUAŢII DE CRIZE, CALAMITĂŢI ŞI DEZASTRE. GESTIONAREA RISCULUI
RISK FACTORS IN POPULATION HEALTH SECURITY CRISES, CALAMITIES AND DISASTERS. RISK MANAGEMENT

Author(s): Cristian Rădulescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Universitatea Crestina "Dimitrie Cantemir"
Keywords: disasters; earthquakes; floods; murrain; epidemics; accident; chemical; industrial; nuclear;

Summary/Abstract: Challenges, perils and threats to public health have not diminished, but rather amplified and intensified lately. More the ways of ensuring and protecting human health are developing, the more the perils and threats become complex and dangerous. This is a paradox. It seems implausible that, in the era of open-heart surgery and brain surgery, when medical science, medical practice and medical art have achieved outstanding performances, to talk of a resurgence of the dangers and threats to human health. And yet, this is the truth. It is true that in developed countries, part of the population is receiving special assistance, but at a planetary scale, due to an increasing strategic fault between the rich and the poor world, a sanitary insecurity appears rather a healthy habitat for human life. Cosmic and geophysical factors, clime factors and human environment factors (pollution, conflict between infrastructures and natural environment, social anomaly, crime and crossborder crime), the development of dangers and threats of the cyberspace, etc. generating new types of perils and chain threats, new vulnerabilities to them and, especially, new uncertainties that make difficult the process of analysis and assumption of the risk.

  • Issue Year: I/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 170-190
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Romanian
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