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Future Perspectives of Health-EDRM and Risk Reduction in Asia

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This chapter wraps up the discussions of the emerging framework of Health-EDRM by highlighting the future challenges of risk reduction under this framework, including constantly changing disaster and health risks, resilience building, disaster information dissemination and its potential disparity, and transient populations.

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Chan, E.Y.Y., Shaw, R. (2020). Future Perspectives of Health-EDRM and Risk Reduction in Asia. 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_23

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