Natural Disaster

Describe, analyze, and provide a public health perspective on a 20th or 21st century natural disaster that has not yet been covered in this course. What were the lessons learned?

Essay format standard: Times New Roman, 12 pt, double spacing, 1″ margins.

There is no set length for this assignment—please write enough so you can fully explain and analyze the natural disaster you are researching.

When the assignment says “not yet covered in this course”, it means not to choose a specific incident that we have covered but it does not eliminate classes of incidents. For example, we talk about hurricanes and you can’t choose Sandy or Katrina but you can choose Hurricane John or Hurricane Iniki. While there is obviously a lot to learn from major disasters, please also consider smaller, more common events as well. If there is something that has affected your local area that has interested you and can be applied to the assignment, feel free to research that.

Here are some helpful tips as you start to write your paper:

The assignment asks you to “Describe, analyze, and provide a public health perspective” on the natural disaster of your choosing. Please remember to make the analysis and public health perspective important parts of your paper.
The lessons learned are also an important part of your research. Please be sure to give this section the appropriate attention.
Support your facts with references. *If you are having trouble, please look back at the intro lesson and review the library resources.
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