Public Health and Disasters

This book presents the health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM) research landscape, with examples from Asia. In recent years, the intersection of health and disaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged as an important interdisciplinary field. In several landmark UN agreements adopted in 2015-2016, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris climate agreement, and the New Urban Agenda (Habitat III), health is acknowledged as an inevitable outcome and a natural goal of disaster risk reduction, and the cross-over of the two fields is essential for the successful implementation of the Sendai Framework. H-EDRM has emerged as an umbrella field that encompasses emergency and disaster medicine, DRR, humanitarian response, community health resilience, and health system resilience. However, this fragmented, nascent field has yet to be developed into a coherent discipline. Key challenges include redundant research, lack of a strategic research agenda, limited development of multisectoral and interdisciplinary approaches, deficiencies in the science-policy-practice nexus, absence of standardized terminology, and insufficient coordination among stakeholders. This book provides a timely and invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, scholars, and frontline practitioners as well as policymakers from across the component domains of H-EDRM.

Auteur

Professor Emily Ying Yang Chan is a Professor, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Associate Director, of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Centre for Global Health (CGH) and Centre of Excellence (ICoE-CCOUC), Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR); Co-chair of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Group; and a member of the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG). She is also a visiting professor at the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Medicine; senior fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and visiting scholar, FXB Center, Harvard University. Her research interests include disaster and humanitarian medicine, climate change and health, global and planetary health, human health security and health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM), remote rural health, implementation and translational science, ethnic minority health, injury and violence epidemiology, and primary care. Awarded the American Public Health Association's 2007 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award, Professor Chan has published more than 200 international peer-reviewed academic, technical, and conference articles and eight academic books. She also has extensive experience as an international frontline emergency relief practitioner in the mid-1990s.

Rajib Shaw is a Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). Before that, he was the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), a decade-long research program co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the chair of SEEDS Asia, CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He was a Professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He is the Chair of the United Nations Global Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG); and is the co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He serves as the Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of Asia chapter of IPCC 6th Assessment Report on Climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability. He is the editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction, published by Springer. Prof. Shaw has published more than 45 books and over 300 academic papers and book chapters.

Contenu
Introduction
Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan

Part 1:
Chapter 1: Overview of H-EDRM and health issues in DRR: Practices and challengesEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan
Part 2:
Chapter 2: Public health prevention hierarchy in disaster contextEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chapter 3: Key public health challenges for H-EDRM in the twenty-first century: Demographic and epidemiological transitionsEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chapter 4: Evidence gaps in bottom-up resilience building of H-EDRM in AsiaEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chapter 5: H-EDRM in international policy agenda I: Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 20152030 Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan
Chapter 6: H-EDRM in international policy agenda III: Paris climate agreementEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan
Chapter 7: H-EDRM in international policy agenda IV: 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda (Habitat III)Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan, and Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Part 3:
Chapter 8: Health issues and DRR in India: Some reflectionsR. Krishnamurthy, University of Madras, India
Chapter 9: Health issues and disaster risk reduction perspectives in ChinaEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chapter 10: Health emergencies and DRR in Pakistan: examples and achievementsAtta-ur Rahman, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Chapter 11: Bangladesh public health issues and implications to flood risk reductionAkiko Matsuyama and Maiko Sakamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Chapter 12: Epi-Nurse: health emergency perspectives in NepalSakiko Kanbara, Kochi University, Japan
Chapter 13: Health emergency and public involvement in PhilippinesMa. Regina Justina E. Estuar, Ateneo University, Philippines
Chapter 14: Smart water solutions for health emergency in he delta region of BengalBhaswati Ray, University of Calcutta, India, Md. Anwarul Abedin, Bangladesh Agriculture University and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan
Chapter 15: Community networking for healthcare in case of disaster: Examples from small and medium sized cities in JapanKenji Isayama, Hiroshima International University, Japan and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan
Part 4:
Chapter 16: Future perspectives of H-EDRM and risk reduction in Asia Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan