Questions from “Cultural Competency in Emergency and Crisis Management”.
1. Why is it important to have the emergency management profession “more representative of all genders, age groups, races and ethnicities”?
2. How would you rank the nine themes identified on page 28? Please rank all 9 and explain what each means to you.
Questions from “Cultural Competency in Disasters”.
On page 202, it is stated that a “successful emergency management program must take into account the development of methods of reaching out to the whole community in order to effectively involve residents in the development of culturally competent emergency management programs”.
1. Explain why this is important in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. After reading the case studies, which incident did you find most appalling? For the one you selected, explain why you think it is most appalling and what could have been done to implement a more culturally sensitive approach to the impacted community.
Please dedicate one page to each response (4 pages in total).
