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Public Awareness and Disaster Risk Reduction: Just-in-Time Networks and Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Ali Ardalan ,
Faina Linkov ,
Eugene Shubnikov  and
Ronald E. LaPorte
Ali Ardalan*
Affiliation:
Health in Emergency and Disaster Department, Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Faina Linkov
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Eugene Shubnikov
Affiliation:
Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
Ronald E. LaPorte
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
*
Ali Adalan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health in Emergency and Disaster Department, Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Improving public awareness through education has been recognized widely as a basis for reducing the risk of disasters. Some of the first disaster just-in-time (JIT) education modules were built within 3–6 days after the south Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Bam, Pakistan, and Indonesia earthquakes through a Supercourse. Web monitoring showed that visitors represented a wide spectrum of disciplines and educational levels from 120 developed and developing countries. Building disaster networks using an educational strategy seizes the opportunity of increased public interest to teach and find national and global expertise in hazard and risk information. To be effective, an expert network and a template for the delivery of JIT education must be prepared before an event occurs, focusing on developing core materials that could be customized rapidly, and then be based on the information received from a recent disaster. The recyclable process of the materials would help to improve the quality of the teaching, and decrease the time required for preparation. The core materials can be prepared for disasters resulting from events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, and bioterrorism.

Keywords

disastersdistance educatione-learningrisk reduction
Type
Forum
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 286 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2008

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