The accident or event that occurs in an absolutely unforeseen manner is designated with the term of emergency.
Meanwhile, according to the context in which it is used, the word emergency can refer to various issues.
On the one hand, the term emergency is often used by most people to refer to an out-of-control situation that developed as a result of a disaster. Generally, we will be facing a true emergency situation when a certain unexpected, eventual and very unpleasant event alters the prevailing tranquility in a community, which may not only cause very important material damage and fatalities, but also affect the social and economic structure of the society in question. , but without this situation exceeding the response capacity that the same community can provide to alleviate or minimize its effects.
Among the most recurrent types of emergency we can find the ecological emergency, which is a situation derived from human activities or natural phenomena that severely affect its components, certainly endangering ecosystems, among them, oil spill, global warming.
The health emergency, which is one caused by situations of epidemics or pandemics. Currently, the entire world is experiencing a health emergency as a result of the declaration of a pandemic due to the spread of influenza A.
AND emergencies due to androgenic interventions, which develop in response to extreme hydro-meteorological phenomena, for example, forest fires that occur in forests very close to a population.
On the other hand, and now in a political context, the expression state of emergency when an event occurs in a nation that threatens the peace and tranquility of the citizens, then, the government, to avoid a generalized and uncontrollable chaos, dictates this state that will consist, as appropriate, in restricting some rights or activities. For example, in the case that is being lived today with the phenomenal spread of Influenza A, in many states in which the epidemic reached an important transmission peak, the government decided to suspend public activities such as attending shows artistic, sports and also daily activities such as work or attending classes.
