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Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-Edrm): Developing the Research Field Within the Sendai Framework Paradigm Publisher



Lo STT1 ; Chan EYY1, 2, 3 ; Chan GKW1 ; Murray V4, 5, 6 ; Abrahams J7 ; Ardalan A8 ; Kayano R9 ; Yau JCW10
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  1. 1. Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  2. 2. Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, United Kingdom
  3. 3. Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University, Boston, 02115, MA, United States
  4. 4. Public Health England, London, SEI 8UG, United Kingdom
  5. 5. The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Geneva, CH1202, Switzerland
  6. 6. Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Scientific Committee, Beijing, 100094, China
  7. 7. World Health Organization, Geneva 27, 1211, Switzerland
  8. 8. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 1416753955, Iran
  9. 9. World Health Organization Kobe Centre for Health Development, Kobe, 651-0073, Japan
  10. 10. Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Source: International Journal of Disaster Risk Science Published:2017


Abstract

The intersection of health and disaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged in recent years as a field of critical inquiry. Health is recognized as an outcome and a goal of DRR, and the integration of both fields is essential to ensure the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) has emerged as an umbrella field that encompasses emergency and disaster medicine, DRR, humanitarian response, community health resilience, and health systems resilience. In September 2016, an international group of experts met in Hong Kong to assess the current status and potential of the Health-EDRM research field, a research area that these scholars characterized as underdeveloped and fragmented. Key challenges identified include research overlap, lack of strategic research agenda, absence of consensus regarding terminology, and limited coordination between stakeholders. The Sendai Framework provides a useful paradigm within which to shape the research field’s strategic development. The WHO Thematic Platform for Health-EDRM Research Group was established to coordinate activities, promote information-sharing, develop partnerships, and provide technical advice to strengthen the Health-EDRM research field. This group will promote the generation of robust and scientific health research to support the meaningful implementation of the Sendai Framework. © 2017, The Author(s).