Building Bottom-Up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes

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Professor Chan received academic training from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Currently, she serves in CUHK as Professor and Assistant Dean at Faculty of Medicine, Associate Director at JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Director at Centre for Global Health and Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), as well as at Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine as Visiting Professor and in Harvard University as Senior Fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Visiting Scholar at FXB Center. Professor Chan also serves as a member of Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG) and Co-chairperson of WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Group.

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Introductory to intermediate level textbook and reference book for healthcare professionals, fieldworkers, volunteers and students who are interested in promoting health and emergency and disaster risk reduction in Asia.

Inhalt

• 1: Introduction: An example of programme development: CCOUC Ethnic Minority Health Project

• 2: Public health principles for health and disaster risk reduction programmes

• 3: Health promotion planning approaches, human behavourial change models, and health promotion theories

• 4: Public health in rural Asia I

• 5: Public health in rural Asia II

• 6: From theory to practice

• 7: Issues in rural health and key messages for health and disaster risk reduction education programmes

• 8: Special topics in rural health I: natural disasters and climate change

• 9: Special topics in rural health II: border towns, plantation, and nomadic pastoralists

• 10: Special topics in rural health III: older persons, migration, and technology

• 11: Conclusion

• Appendix 1: Basic knowledge and skills of Chinese citizens on health literacy

• Appendix 2: Semi-structured questions for indepth interviews with village heads

• Appendix 3: Example of focus group discussion questions

• Appendix 4: Basic information of focus group interviewees

• Appendix 5: A sample of health and disaster response survey research questionnaire

• Index