title: Promoting a culture of disaster preparedness.
abstract: Disasters from all hazards, ranging from natural disasters, human-induced disasters, effects of climate change to social conflicts can significantly affect the healthcare system and community. This requires a paradigm shift from a reactive approach to a disaster risk management 'all-hazards' approach. Disaster management is a joint effort of the city, state, regional, national, multi-agencies and international organisations that requires effective communication, collaboration and coordination. This paper offers lessons learned and best practices, which, when taken into consideration, can strengthen the phases of disaster risk management.
authors.affiliation: PO Box 231084, New York, NY10023, USA.
authors.forename: Angeli
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Medina
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*