Overview of Health-EDRM and Health Issues in DRR: Practices and Challenges
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Rajib Shaw
Pages 1-6
Public Health Prevention Hierarchy in Disaster Context
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Chi Shing Wong
Pages 7-17
Key Public Health Challenges for Health-EDRM in the Twenty-First Century: Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Heidi Hung
Pages 19-38
Evidence Gaps in Community Resilience Building of Health-EDRM in Asia
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Gloria Kwong Wai Chan
Pages 39-58
Health-EDRM in International Policy Agenda I: Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Heidi Hung, Virginia Murray, Rajib Shaw
Pages 59-74
Health-EDRM in International Policy Agenda II: Paris Climate Agreement
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Heidi Hung, Rajib Shaw
Pages 75-92
Health-EDRM in International Policy Agenda III: 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda (Habitat III)
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Janice Y. Ho, Chi Shing Wong, Rajib Shaw
Pages 93-114
Bangladesh Public Health Issues and Implications to Flood Risk Reduction
Akiko Matsuyama, Fahmida Afroz Khan, Md. Khalequzzaman
Pages 115-128
Smart Water Solutions to Address Salinity, Drinking Water and Health Issues in Coastal Bangladesh
Md. Anwarul Abedin, Bhaswati Ray, Mohammad Golam Kibria, Rajib Shaw
Pages 129-143
Health Issues and Disaster Risk Reduction Perspectives in China
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Sida Liu
Pages 145-154
Health and Disaster Risk Management in India
Supriya Krishnan, Ila Patnaik
Pages 155-184
Safe Drinking Water Solutions in Parts of West Bengal, India: Combating Health Issues Through Participatory Water Management
Bhaswati Ray, Md. Anwarul Abedin, Rajib Shaw
Pages 185-200
External Support and Community Cooperation During Long-Term Sheltering—From the Case of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Shoko Miyagawa, Miho Satoh, Satoshi Furuya, Yoko Yamada, Rajib Shaw
Pages 201-219
Health Issues in the Aftermath of Nuclear Power Plant Accident in Fukushima
Takeshi Komino
Pages 221-228
EpiNurse, Health Monitoring by Local Nurses on Nepal Earth Quake 2015
Sakiko Kanbara, Apsara Pandey, Maria Regina E. Estuar, Hyeon Ju Lee, Hiroyuki Miyazaki
Pages 229-244
An Assessment of Primary Health Care Facilities and Their Preparedness Level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT)
Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Abid, Jingzhong Ye
Pages 245-264
Public Health and Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences from Vietnam
Tran Nu Quy Linh, Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh
Pages 265-280
Health Emergency and Public Involvement in the Philippines: Syndromic Surveillance Efforts and System Integration
Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar, Kennedy E. Espina, Christian E. Pulmano, Charles Ventura, Roy Miguel G. Romarate
Pages 281-298
Breakthrough on Health Data Collection in Disasters—Knowledge Arises in Asia Spread to the World
Tatsuhiko Kubo, Flavio Salio, Yuichi Koido
Pages 299-312
The Development of Health Vulnerability Index with Open Access Data
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Holly Ching Yu Lam, Zhe Huang
Pages 313-321
Technical Review of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Literature in Rural Asia
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Asta Yi Tao Man, Holly Ching Yu Lam
Pages 323-332
Health-EDRM: Lessons Learnt in Asia
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Chi Shing Wong, Rajib Shaw
Pages 333-340
Future Perspectives of Health-EDRM and Risk Reduction in Asia
Emily Ying Yang Chan, Rajib Shaw
Pages 341-343

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.