title: Awareness of disaster reduction frameworks and risk perception of natural disaster: a questionnaire survey among Philippine and Indonesian health care personnel and public health students.
abstract: As the impacts of natural disasters have grown more severe, the importance of education for disaster medicine gains greater recognition. We launched a project to establish an international educational program for disaster medicine. In the present study, we surveyed medical personnel and medical/public health students in the Philippines (n = 45) and Indonesia (n = 67) for their awareness of the international frameworks related to disaster medicine: the Human Security (securing individual life and health), the Sphere Project (international humanitarian response), and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (international strategy for disaster reduction). In both countries, more than 50% responders were aware of human security, but only 2 to 12% were aware of the latter two. The survey also contained questions about the preferred subjects in prospective educational program, and risk perception on disaster and disaster-related infections. In the Philippines, significant disasters were geophysical (31.0%), hydrological (33.3%), or meteorological (24.8%), whereas in Indonesia, geophysical (63.0%) and hydrological (25.3%) were significant. Moreover, in the Philippines, leptospirosis (27.1%), dengue (18.6%), diarrhea (15.3%), and cholera (10.2%) were recognized common disaster-related infections. In Indonesia, diarrhea (22.0%) and respiratory infection (20.3%) are major disaster-related infections. Water-related infections were the major ones in both countries, but the profiles of risk perception were different (Pearson's chi-square test, p = 1.469e-05). The responders tended to overestimate the risk of low probability and high consequence such as geophysical disaster. These results are helpful for the development of a postgraduate course for disaster medicine in Asia Pacific countries.
authors.affiliation: Division of Disaster Medicine, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University.
authors.forename: Motoki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Usuzawa
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: O Telan
authors.forename: Razel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kawano
authors.forename: Carmela
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: S Dizon
authors.forename: Bachti
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alisjahbana
authors.forename: Yugo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ashino
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Egawa
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukumoto
authors.forename: Takako
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Izumi
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hattori
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D054597:Disaster Medicine; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004190:Disasters / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia / Q000453:epidemiology; D010679:Philippines / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D040443:Students, Public Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires