Health-EDRM: Lessons Learnt in Asia

Abstract

The chapter provides an overview and summary of how the 14 Asian case studies in the book fit into and be employed to illustrate the prevention-centred Health-EDRM framework, as well as the common Health-EDRM topics in the region. Traditionally, health emergency disaster risk management approaches may assume risks are stable and risks might be management in a linear manner. Yet, the rapid changes in infrastructure built environmental and human behavioural patterns with modernization have rendered health risk management in emergency and disaster risk with a constant struggle. However, there remain some challenges, which include redundant research, lack of a strategic research agenda, limited development of multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary approaches, deficiency in the science–policy–practice nexus, the absence of standardized terminology and meagre coordination among stakeholders.