This assignment is worth 100% of the total marks for this course unit.
Provide an overview of the emergency and its impacts, including health impacts (short, medium, and long-term). Your answer should include an outline of the chosen geographical area, the size and scale of the emergency and the main groups at risk. You may find it useful to include a timeline of the events.
For your draft submission, please complete Question 1 of the assignment. The essay should concentrate on Selecting an emergency, disaster or crisis requiring a multiagency response in the chosen geographical area. You should ensure that there is sufficient information and evidence available in the public domain for you to answer all the questions. Question 1 of the assignment is due on April 16th.
You must include as much critical appraisal as you can throughout the assignment to critically appraise the evidence (within the word limit). You must apply your critical thinking skills by going beyond just describing what the authors did and focusing on the interpretation and evaluation of what they did within the context of the study, as shown in the ”CRITICAL APPRAISAL”.
Consider the word count and the marks in the brackets when you respond to each question (See Assignment Brief file).
3,000 maximum word limit. It is preferable to include the references at the end of the paper.
References should be consistently laid out in Harvard format.
30 sources are required for the final assignment.
Submit word-processed work as 1.5 or double spacing and number the pages
Please Carefully Review and Refer to the Assignment Brief for further information on the Assessment Task, Learning Outcomes, Marking Rubric, Assignment Guidance, Word Count & Critical Appraisal that will be reviewed in this assessment. Utilise the CASP checklist to Appraise the study Critically.
A marking rubric file is provided to consider while composing the assignment to check if the requirements for this task are met.
