Exploring Disaster Risk Reduction Through Community-Level Approaches to Promote Healthy Outcomes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Community Level

scholarly journals (A31) Integrating Health Volunteers into Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s9-s10
Author(s):  
M. Keim
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Attitude Shift

BackgroundDisaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged as a core element of sustainable development. (UN/ISDR 2002). Reducing risk requires long-term engagement (O'Brien 2006), and the actual work of DRR is largely a task for local communities. (Schipper 2006). DRR shares some tenets with preventive medicine (Sidel 1992). As in preventive medicine, risk reduction calls for a basic attitude shift in the minds of many who traditionally get sick first and seek treatment later. The challenge for DRR, as applied to health, is to broaden the focus of disaster management from that of tertiary prevention, (response and recovery) to also emphasize primary and secondary prevention, (prevention, preparedness and mitigation).DiscussionThe role of the health sector spans across the spectrum of DRR to include prevention, mitigation and preparedness activities. DRR, as applied to health, is intended to prevent and/or reduce the negative health consequences of disaster hazards. This is accomplished by two means: hazard avoidance and vulnerability reduction. Health and medical volunteers at the community level can play an important role in reducing human vulnerability to disasters by: (1) reducing susceptibility – “healthy people” (2) reducing exposure to disaster hazards – “healthy homes; (Srinivasan et al. 2003); and (3) increasing resilience – “healthy communities”. Volunteers help to reduce exposures to disaster hazards through participation in population protection measures such as shelter-in-place, evacuation and mass care. They work to reduce susceptibility by participating in health care, health promotion, and immunization programs. Finally, volunteers may build resilience by way of their participation in community-level preparedness, response and recovery efforts. (Keim 2008)

Analisis Longsor Cililin Dan Model Pengupayaan Kestabilan Lerengnya

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisyanto
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Landslide Risk ◽  
West Java ◽  
Water Condition ◽  
Reduction Program ◽  
Landslide Risk Reduction

Landslides have occurred in various places in Indonesia. Likewise with West Java, there were many regions that has experienced repeated landslides. Having many experience of occurrences of landslides, we should have had a good landslide risk reduction program. Indeed, the incidence of landslides depends on many variables. Due to that condition, it may that a region would have different variable with another region. So it is impossible to generalize the implementation of a mitigation technology for all areas prone to landslides. Research of the Cililin's landslide is to anticipate the next disasters that may happen in around the area of 2013 Cililin Landslide. Through observation lithological conditions, water condition, land cover and landscape, as well as consideration of wide dimension of the building footing, the distance of building to the slopes and so forth, it has been determined some efforts of disaster risk reduction in the area around the landslide against the occurrence of potential landslide in the future.Bencana tanah longsor telah terjadi di berbagai tempat di Indonesia. Demikian halnya dengan Jawa Barat, tidak sedikit daerahnya telah berulang kali mengalami longsor. Seharusnya dengan telah banyaknya kejadian longsor, kita mampu mengupayakan program penurunan risiko longsor secara baik. Memang kejadian longsor bergantung pada banyak variabel, dimana dari satu daerah dengan daerah yang lain akan sangat memungkinkan mempunyai variabel yang berbeda, sehingga tidak mungkin kita membuat generalisasi penerapan suatu teknologi mitigasinya untuk semua daerah rawan longsor. Penelitian longsor di Cililin dilakukan untuk mengantisipasi terjadinya bencana di sekitar daerah Longsor Cililin 2013 yang lalu. Melalui pengamatan kondisi litologi, keairan, tutupan lahan dan bentang alam yang ada, serta pertimbangan akan dimensi luas pijakan bangunan, jarak batas bangunan dengan lereng dan lain sebagainya, telah ditentukan beberapa upaya penurunan risiko bencana di daerah sekitar longsor terhadap potensi kejadian longsor dimasa mendatang.Keywords: Landslide, risk reduction, footing of building, Cililin

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