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Exploring Disaster Risk Reduction Through Community-Level Approaches to Promote Healthy Outcomes Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief
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... . 3 A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources (UNISDR, 2016)
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... Geological Survey, during an earlier Preparedness Summit plenary session, saying, "We cannot respond our way out of disasters." A more widespread and systematic socialization and commitment of DRR strategies at the community level in the United States, coordinated through a national platform, could have far reaching effects and result in more resilient7 communities and improved health and livelihood of the population. Holistic, community-based risk-reduction strategies can be employed to prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disasters, increase preparedness for response and recovery, and thus strengthen resilience.
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... These individuals are uniquely suited for cross-sector collaboration and should be engaged in conversations with health professionals, clinicians, engineers, and local government leaders on how to conduct environmental management strategies in their communities in order to reduce disaster risk. The creation of a physical infrastructure such as the Dujiangyan Weirs example in China could have lasting effects on reducing the exposure to hazards for a community and, as Dyjack concluded, become an important part of community resilience.
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... The city is looking over the long term to increase development in the areas of food deserts to ensure that there is healthy food available through places that people already visit, such as corner stores. To increase the demand for local food, Baltimore officials are working to increase access to farmers' markets and increase incentives for buying local food as well as encourage farms with a social model such as those that also provide education or employ formerly incarcerated citizens.
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... To better understand how DRR could be done more holistically, individual workshop attendees and speakers, through a series of facilitated exercises and discussions, examined the potential risk factors, root causes, vulnerabilities, hazard exposures, and characteristics that collectively contribute to disaster risk. Using worksheets (see Figures 2 and 3)
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... Echoing the MRC cultural competence strategies previously described, she emphasized that it is very important that cultural competency education takes place across all sectors. Having these types of programs, combined with building neighborhood cultural diversity, can create stronger social capital and social cohesion in communities and lead to more resilient populations (IOM, 2015)
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... One way to mobilize communities to take on DRR as an important activity within their daily lives that was mentioned in both the civil unrest and water contamination sessions was building off of neighborhood watches or community associations. As several participants noted throughout the workshop, many DRR strategies, such as a neighborhood association movement to discourage crime or a community gardening program to increase the availability of and access to nutritional foods, can be developed at the grassroots level and scaled up.
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... 2016. Exploring disaster risk reduction through community-level approaches to promote healthy outcomes: Proceedings of a workshop -- in brief.


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