He noted the widespread impacts of hurricanes Georges and Mitch on much of Central America and even on Venezuela. He displayed a list titled Vulnerability of Risk and Disaster . A disaster is the result of all of these things combined. It is these things that must be addressed in mitigation. Foresight is the individual and social perception of the risk.
Risk management involves modifying the potential for the event.
He described risk management as involving anthropic risk, risk mitigation, and a solutions perspective. Anthropic risk is that which has its origins in human activity with a negative effect over a certain population or parts of the environment. Risk mitigation entails the stimulation of a prevention culture with a goal of making risks and disasters prevention a public value. It is necessary for a nation and its citizens to have a solutions perspective. However, since then, it has been demonstrated in numerous ways that the public health field has made important contributions to lessening the effects of disasters, many of them as ways to better prepare for disaster response and to organize post-disaster medical and public health activities.