Sentence examples for prior disasters from inspiring English sources

The primary author interviewed WHO Communications Officers who had responded to prior disasters using an open-ended survey.

Social critics pointed out that the accident, along with several prior disasters such as the Kader toy factory fire, was part of a trend in which the country's rapid industrialization resulted in increasing health and environmental hazards due to poor regulations and lack of official willingness to tackle the issue.

Anecdotal reports by respondents indicated a significant number had survived a wide variety of prior disasters.

Although the Haiti earthquake response incorporated more attention to disability than in most prior disasters (38), there were still significant unmet needs (9, 24).

We must never disregard or become desensitized to the lessons learned from the disasters of 2001 (Houston floods, World Trade Center/Pentagon plane crashes, anthrax mailings) that have brought the lessons from prior disasters into perspective.

A prior disaster drill at the depot called for the evacuation of 20,000 people.

In summary, out of various internal attributes, prior disaster-related personal impact resulted in identifying larger areas as perceived neighborhood boundaries.

Prior disaster experience is likely to be among the strongest public motivators to prepare [ 81, 82].

A study of rescue/recovery workers who responded to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster revealed that risk of mental health problems may differ among occupations, and that occupations least likely to have had prior disaster training were at greater risk [ 7].

Although we did not have any quantitative data on prior disaster training or experience for any of the studied occupations, we speculate that the lower risk of PTSD among firefighters may be partially explained by their prior training and experience with disaster [ 7, 31].

For those with prior disaster experience, however, social network support was anecdotally reported as the most helpful resource for coping with the disaster by a margin of 50% over mental and emotional support combined; only 1 person identified physical health as the factor that helped the most.