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Health Aspects of Disaster Preparedness and Response Panel Session 1: Water-related Hazards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

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Abstract

This Panel Session consisted of three country reports (Bagladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar) and the common issues identified during the Panel discussions relative to water-related hazards and events in the Southeast Asia Region. The primary event discussed regardless of the hazards encountered was flooding. The merits of the responses generated in Bangladesh before, during, and following the 2004 floods provide evidence of what can be accomplished in community and national levels of preparedness.

Many key issues arose in the discussions: (1) command and control systems and SOPs; (2) ready resources; (3) public information and education and human resource development; (4) community-level preparedness; (5) accessibility to health care; (6) increased focus on disease prevention and control; (7) management of dead bodies; (8) need for a legal framework; (9) funding and the management of funds; and (10) relationships with themedia.

Keywords

accessibilityaidauthorityBangladeshBhutancapacity buildingchallengesclimatecommunicationcoordination and controldatabasediarrheadisasterdiseasesearly warning systemseducationfloodsfunctionfundingglacial lake outburstshealth facilitieshealth workershospitalsincident commandlegal frameworklogisticsmediaministry of healthmortality ratesMyanmarplanpre-event statuspreparednessprioritiespublic healthpublic informationreliefresourcesrespiratory infectionsriverssurveillancetraining
Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 21 , supplement S3: Health Aspects of Disaster Preparedness and Response , October 2006 , pp. s79 - s81
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2006

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