Question

1. What is a Complex Humanitarian Emergency (CHE)? Please provide an example

2. Calculate the case fatality attack rate for the following: 350 people were diagnosed with dysentery, 89 died from it.

3. List at least three causes of death from CHEs and their impacts on refugees camps

4. List a few examples in where mental health disorders (depression, PTSD) have had effects on refugees. Use some stats from the book to answer this question.

Answer 1

1. complex humanitarian emergency (CHE):-
-situations affecting large human populations which involve a combination of factors including war or civil strife, food shortages and population displacement, resulting in significant excess mortality.
-A humanitarian crisis in a country, region or society where there is total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting
from internal or external conflict and which requires an international response.

Example:- civil war in Syria

2. Case fatality rate:- (CFR)
number of deaths from a specified
disease over a defined period of
time
CFR = ---------------------------------------*100
number of individuals diagnosed
with the disease during that time

Put the value in formula :-

CFR = 89/350*100
= 25.42% answer

3. Three causes of death during complex humanitarian emergency are as follow:-
(A) Death from injuries during the acute event.
(B) Death from breakdown of the health infrastructure.
(C) Death from the complications of untreated chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and undernutrition.