Study for development of Business Continuing Plan model at health facilities for disaster risk reduction in middle / low income countries

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K15802
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental nursing
• Research Institution: University of the Ryukyus (2016-2017); Yokohama City University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: KODAMA MITSUYA 琉球大学, 医学部, 特命助教 (20707971)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 叶谷 由佳 横浜市立大学, 医学部, 教授 (80313253)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): EGAWA Shinichi 東北大学, 災害科学国際研究所, 教授 (00270679)
• Research Collaborator: Buddy Destura University of the Philippines Manila, College of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Dean ; Gregorio Ernesto R. University of the Philippines Manila, College of Public Health, Assistant professor
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 災害 / 公衆衛生 / BCP / 保健医療施設 / 事業継続

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Disaster preparedness and business continuity have become more crucial than ever. For strengthening and enabling continuity of community health activities in developing countries in case of disaster, we reviewed the literature to identify disaster preparedness and business continuity in public health, and conducted a case study on the super typhoon Haiyan in 2015 in Philippines with developing “Business Continuing Plan”.
Lessons learned from the Haiyan was that heavily damaged health facilities received emergency clinical and medical assistance from domestic and abroad, and concentrated on health administrative services with allocating staff with sharing information. On the other hand, moderately damaged facilities could not obtained external medical supports, and reorganization and recovery of public health system was relatively slow, and had difficulties of cooperation and collaboration with stakeholder and surrounding communities.

Free Research Field

災害時の公衆衛生