A Community Health Nurse Is Working as Part of a Disaster

Multiple Choice

A community health nurse is working as part of a disaster response team which is using the epidemiological triad to address factors contributing to disasters. When implementing this framework, which concept about the environmental factors would be most important for the team to incorporate?

A) The environment is the natural or technologic element that is the cause of the disaster.
B) The environment includes the human being who experiences the full effect of the disaster.
C) Factors that could potentially contribute to or mitigate a disaster are environmental.
D) Environmental factors that cause a disaster are high winds of a hurricane and the lava of an erupting volcano.