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Community and Health emergency Management
Dr: Khawla Al-HotiFamily physician.
Director of health services , Quriyat WillaytMRCGP,ARAB BOARD, Diploma in diabetes &Diploma Child Health
• First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management • 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Quriyat Willayat
77 Villages
Objective• Describe Lesson Learned From Community Based Approach
• Describe Willayat Health Committee Structure
• Describe vulnerabilities & capacity building
• List Challenges of community participation
• Design action plan for community project
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Definition
A group of individuals and households living in the same location and having the same hazard Exposure, Who can share the same objectives
and goals in Disaster risk reduction.
• First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management • 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
“The local community is taken as the primary focus of attention (in a disaster reduction) since that is the common unit which is affected by a disaster and , more importantly ,responds to deal with the event.” Russell Dynes
• First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management • 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
voluntary formation of community organization to implement DRR
• First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management • 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Lesson Learned• Community always try to adapt• Coping Strategies are often
inadequate• So, Training to enhance skills &
technological support is needed
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
• First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management • 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
National
Regional
Willayat
Health Committe
Community Members
Community Support
Group
NonGovernmentalOrganization
GovernmentalSectors
VulnerabilitiesLack of:• Access to Health
• Access to Food & Water
• Access to Information
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
When? How? whom? Where? What?
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
If each individual does their part to prepare
Whole community will become safer andBetter equipped to cope with emergencies
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
SEARCH and RESCUE BASIC PRINCIPLES 2 major components
SEARCH &RESCUETEAM(S)National
orProvincial
COMMUNITY BASEDFIRST RESPONDERS
INRESCUE ACTVITIES
(survivors/ Agencies..)
SearchRescue
Basic first aid and rescueSpecialized S&R
Training (preparedness)• First Aid, BLS• Safety (fire, road, electricity,..)• Drill, Evaluation and monitoring• Communicable disease (surveillance)
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Support Group
Support • Information centre (early warning)• Food & water (relief distribution)• Vulnerable• Shelter• Environmental health• Physical structure
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Health Education• Family emergency plan• School emergency plan• Livestock emergency Shelter• Public health measures
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Exercise1.Design action plan for the following:
Training Support Health education
2.List the challenges of community participation
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
Thank Yuo
ADPC Indicators of a Minimum level of resilience
A community organization A DRR and disaster preparedness plan A community early warning system Trained manpower: risk assessment, search and rescue, medical first aid, relief distribution, masons for safer house construction, fire fighting Physical connectivity: roads, electricity, telephone, clinics Relational connectivity with local authorities, NGOs, etc. Knowledge of risks and risk reduction actions A community disaster reduction fund to implement risk reduction activities Safer sources of livelihood
First National Course on Public Health Emergency Management 12 – 23 March 2011. Muscat, Oman
References• Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Publication of the
“local Network of NGOs” for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, June 2007
• Community based approach to disaster mitigation. Lorna P.victoria, director, centre for disaster preparedness
• Characteristics of disaster-resiliant community, A Guidance Note, Jhon Twig for the DFID Disaster Risk Reduction Interagency coordination group, August 2007