week 14 disaster epidemiology and surveillance public health course

a brief reflection describing disaster epidemiology; its purpose, and aims or objectives. Then explain what is disaster public health surveillance and the potential sources of information for data collection for a surveillance system during a disaster. Next, describe an epidemiologic technique and tool that could be utilized to conduct rapid community needs assessments after a disaster and outline under what specific conditions following a disaster, should this tool should be used to measure public health perceptions, and evaluate the needs of a community.