Synergising Public Health Concepts with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Conceptual Glossary.

Christine Kenney,Suzanne Phibbs,Christina Severinsen,Roger Hughes,Jon Mitchell

doi:10.3390/ijerph13121241

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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015) is a global strategy for addressing disaster risk and resilience that has been ratified by member countries of the United Nations. Its guiding principles emphasise building resilience through inter-sectoral collaboration, as well as partnerships that facilitate community empowerment and address underlying risk factors. Both public health and the emergency management sector face similar challenges related to developing and implementing strategies that involve structural change, facilitating community resilience and addressing individual risk factors. Familiarity with public health principles enables an understanding of the holistic approach to risk reduction that is outlined within the Sendai Framework. We present seven concepts that resonate with contemporary public health practice, namely: the social determinants of health; inequality and inequity; the inverse care law; community-based and community development approaches; hard to reach communities and services; the prevention paradox; and the inverse prevention law. These ideas from public health provide a useful conceptual base for the ”new” agenda in disaster risk management that underpins the 2015 Sendai Framework. The relevance of these ideas to disaster risk management and research is illustrated through drawing on the Sendai Framework, disaster literature and exemplars from the 2010–2011 earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand.

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In 2015 three landmark UN agreements were enacted with: (1) The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (Sendai Framework) adopted in March 2015 in Sendai, Japan by 187 United Nations (UN) member states; (2) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed in September 2015 in New York, USA by 193 countries; and (3) The Paris Agreement on ClimateChange, signed by 195 countries in December 2015 at the Paris Climate Conference (CoP21)
We argue that strategies that target the entire population have the greatest potential to reduce disaster risk across all socio-economic groups
On the 22 of February 2011 a magnitude 6.3 earthquake centred under Christchurch devastated the city, killing 185 people and injuring a further 7171 [33]

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In 2015 three landmark UN agreements were enacted with: (1) The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (Sendai Framework) adopted in March 2015 in Sendai, Japan by 187 United Nations (UN) member states; (2) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed in September 2015 in New York, USA by 193 countries; and (3) The Paris Agreement on Climate. Change, signed by 195 countries in December 2015 at the Paris Climate Conference (CoP21). The first, The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, aims to reduce disaster losses in lives, livelihoods, and health by a series of agreed actions and builds on the previous Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015 [1]. The goals and actions of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction [2]. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 1241; doi:10.3390/ijerph13121241 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph

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