Chinese disasters and just-in-time education.
Just-in-time ( JIT) Educational Strategy has been applied successfully to share scientific knowledge about disasters in several countries. This strategy was introduced to China in 2008 with the hopes to quickly disseminate accurate scientific data to the population, and it was applied during the Sichuan Earthquake and Influenza A (H1N1) outbreak. Implementation of this strategy likely educated between 10,000 and 20,000,000 people. The efforts demonstrated that an effective JIT strategy impacted millions of people in China after a disaster occurs as a disaster mitigation education method. This paper describes the Chinese JIT approach, and discusses methodologies for implementing JIT lectures in the context of China's medical and public health system.
Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Yingyun
Y
Yang
Yanwen
Y
Chen
Rashid A
RA
Chotani
Ronald E
RE
Laporte
Ali
A
Ardalan
Eugene
E
Shubnikov
Fania
F
Linkov
Jesse
J
Huang
D002681:China; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016730:Program Development; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*