Through investigating and presenting a combination of quantitative information on economic destruction, business damage, housing/infrastructure damage, lives lost, people missing, mental health levels and access to necessities and qualitative first-hand experience recounts as well as relief and aid, government and non-government and the social response globally to natural disasters we can form a relatively accurately idea on the way natural disaster impact human well being.
WHAT IS HUMAN WELLBEING? WHAT DOES IT ACQUIRE?
Human well being refers to having to having the resources we need to live our lives we want. Well being relates to our level of happiness and our ability to prosper. Well being can be determined by a number of quantitative statistics but also qualitative aspects of life that can't be measured like happiness which makes it difficult to accurately determine good human well being. |
Quantitative Factors that affect Human Well being:
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MY AIm and Inquiry project
To identify and examine data revolving around the social and organisational response to natural disasters and the impact on well being of the civilians affected specifically in the Philippines, other Oceania islands and countries in Asia bordering the Indian or Pacific ocean.