Health Data Collection Before, During and After Emergencies and Disasters—The Result of the Kobe Expert Meeting

Tatsuhiko Kubo, Alisa Yanasan, Teodoro Herbosa, Nilesh Buddh, Ferdinal Fernando and Ryoma Kayano
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Tatsuhiko Kubo: Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Alisa Yanasan: Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Teodoro Herbosa: UP College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila 1000, Philippines
Nilesh Buddh: WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi 110002, India
Ferdinal Fernando: The ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta 12110, Indonesia
Ryoma Kayano: World Health Organization Centre for Health Development, Kobe 651-0073, Japan

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-5

Abstract: In October 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting to identify key research needs, bringing together leading experts from WHO, WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Research Network (TPRN), World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and delegates to the Asia Pacific Conference for Disaster Medicine (APCDM) 2018. The meeting identified key research needs in five major research areas for Health-EDRM. One of the five major research areas was “Health data collection during emergency and disaster”. Experts for this research area highlighted WHO Emergency Medical Team Minimum Data Set (EMT MDS), a standardized medical data collection method during and after disasters, as an example of substantial progress, with knowledge gaps and challenges in implementation in some regions and countries (i.e., information collection methodology in medical facilities of affected local areas, seamless and practical connection between acute phase data collection and post-acute phase local surveillance). The discussion on this research area also identified key research needs in standardization of broader health-related data to inform effective Health EDRM (i.e., community vulnerabilities, hospital functional status, infrastructure, lifelines and health workforce).

Keywords: health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM); Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction; WHO Thematic Platform for H-EDRM; Emergency Medical Team; Emergency Medical Team Minimum Data Set; epidemiology; Public Health Surveillance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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