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Most existing disaster vulnerability indicators only emphasized economic and social vulnerability. Important underlying health risks such as non-communicable disease are not included in common included in vulnerability measures. There is a need of the development of an integrated health vulnerability index and how the proposed vulnerability index may be incorporated into an all-hazard-based disaster risk index. In China, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has led to the interest of advancing the development and tracking of such scientific tools to enable disaster risk reduction initiatives. The author team has attempted to identify the relevant health risks indicators to support disaster risk map development.
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The authors thank Prof. Peng Cui for his support and advice in this collaborating project and study outcome discussions. The content of this chapter was based on re-adaptation of the published paper by the authors (Chan et al. 2019).
Funding   This research was funded by Global Health and Disaster Studies and Research Development Fund, CUHK, CLP/OUT//2017, OAL China, CUHK and International partnership program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. 131551KYSB20160002).
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Chan, E.Y.Y., Lam, H.C.Y., Huang, Z. (2020). The Development of Health Vulnerability Index with Open Access Data. In: Chan, E., Shaw, R. (eds) Public Health and Disasters. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0924-7_20
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