All-Hazard Approach for Public Health Emergency

Dear Colleagues,

With the increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, public health emergencies have become one of the major global concerns. They include not only geographical and meteorological disasters but also terrorist attacks, conflicts, and CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive) disasters. Integrating our experience and knowledge across these seemingly different disasters is important because these events have much in common regarding public health impacts— mental disorders, economic loss, immobility of elderly people, etc.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines four priorities to prevent or reduce disaster risks: (i) understanding disaster risk; (ii) strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) investing in disaster reduction for resilience; and (iv) enhancing disaster preparedness for an effective response, and to "Build Back Better" in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction¹. To achieve these objectives, lessons learned from a disaster should be integrated in a way that it is applicable to other disasters in the future.

For this Special Issue titled “All-Hazard Approach for Public Health Emergency,” we are interested in original research and all types of review articles that contribute to achieving these priorities. Topics include public health impacts that are common across different disasters, disaster preparedness or prevention with the all-hazard approach, risk/crisis communication for consensus formation in any crisis, and other types of cross-sectional research on public health emergencies.

We welcome articles that have a clear take-home message for readers who are struggling with a variety of disasters all over the world.

Dr. Sae Ochi
Guest Editor

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• public health emergency
• all-hazard approach
• disaster prevention
• disaster mitigation
• disaster preparedness
• disaster recovery
• crisis communication
• hospitals safe from disaster