After every natural disaster, there will be a public health disaster. Even when the storm passes and out comes the sunlight, a messy trail of destruction is left behind. The category 4 hurricane resulted in unexpected flooding and damaged the homes of thousands of people, leaving their health and wellbeing in danger. Hurricanes Harvey’s impact on the community had left people scrambling to making hard decisions on whether to stay or to evacuate the flooded regions, but with limited resources many already had their decision made. Hurricane Harvey destroyed the homes of thousands and caused significant amount of flooding. Densely populated living conditions caused the lack of access to medical services across the region. These shortages left people without food or medicine in some areas. The unexpected flooding mixed with raw sewage and dead bodies of human and animals increased the chances of waterborne infections dramatically. This creates a dangerous mixture of chemicals that is nowhere near healthy for humans. After fresh water flooding, in this case from a hurricane, there …show more content…
Federal services achieve this goal by efficiently allocating resources, restoring electricity, and undoing damages. Public health has a wide range of applications and factors that contribute to its success and application in the community. One goal that is shared amongst those capabilities is the responsibility for the safety and wellbeing equally amongst the individual’s involved. But this isn’t always the case economically. High-poverty suburbs appear to be underserved by hospitals, compared with higher income suburbs. The residents of low income suburbs have some of the worst health care in the nation compared to Individuals which appear to have an abundance of hospital resources which are the Higher income neighborhoods that can afford such