Disaster risk reduction for health

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.) ; United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.
• Description:
  Not a new concept; however it is a new priority
  
  What is a disaster?
  
  Disasters occur when vulnerable individuals and communities are impacted by environmental hazards.
  
  Disaster = Hazard x Vulnerability
  
  What is DRR?
  
  Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing, and reducing risks of disasters before they occur.
  
  Why DRR for Health?
  
  The majority of disaster deaths occur during impact, yet historically efforts have focused on response.1 DRR for health addresses the causal factors of disasters to prevent or mitigate illness or injury from ever occurring.
  
  100 million people were affected by disasters in 20142
  
  Disaster risk is rising due to urbanization, population growth, poverty, and climate change3
  
  Vulnerable Populations continue to be disproportionately affected by disasters
  
  30-50% of disaster fatalities are children4
  
  50% of disaster fatalities in Hurricane Katrina were over the age of 755
  
  70% of casualties in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami were women6
  
  Every dollar spent on DRR saves $4 in response and recovery cost
  
  DDR at CDC
  
  National Center
  
  for Environmental Health Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  
  1Malilay 1997, Schultz and Deynes 2010, and McCarty 2002; 2CRED-EM-DAT 2015;
  
  34567
  
  CS262723-B
  
  disaster_risk_infographic.pdf
  
  Science – Understanding disaster risk
  
  Contribute to the growing scientific literature on DRR
  
  Practice – Community efforts and best practices
  
  Identify baseline DRR efforts and build capacity
  
  Evaluate effectiveness of community DRR strategies and implementation
  
  Provide technical assistance to Federal, state, local, territorial, and international stakeholders to build capacity
  
  Policy – Inform national and global strategies
  
  Represent public health on the US National Platform to implement the UN Sendai Framework for DRR
  
  Represent health in the broader multi-sectoral DRR network
  
  
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9dd5cacd5eaad6d4ac8d01f0f4f2d693579db9156845dc3e0c4f7a4ff4f602e7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44971/cdc_44971_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.70 MB ]