A course in disaster mitigation

Abstract

While endeavors are underway within the emergency management discipline to develop a unique body of foundational knowledge, widespread acknowledgement and agreement within the emergency management scholarly community of the existence of theoretical foundations and the consistent incorporation of these elements into emergency management research and teaching are still lacking. This article offers an outline of a US-based undergraduate course in mitigation theory and practice that is based on a synthesis of the academic literature related to disaster mitigation as a means to advance the discourse on foundational knowledge and curriculum development. The course outline proposes a set of concepts, theories, propositions, and empirical data that would arguably be fundamental for students in gaining a comprehensive understanding of mitigation in the United States and suggests how that information can be organized and presented in a meaningful way.

Development of Disaster Nursing in China: From the Spirit of Nightingale to COVID-19

“…After the "September 11" incident in 2001, the topic of "rescue medicine" began to attract global attention. 9 Disaster nursing came into being along with rescue medicine. From 2004 to 2006, Chinese nurses represented by Dean Zhang Li Yan of the Chinese Armed Police General Hospital participated in the rescue of the Indian ocean tsunami, and the Pakistan and Indonesia earthquakes, 10 summing up the disaster rescue nursing experience, and completed the theory of disaster nursing preliminary discussion with practice.…”

“…After the "September 11" incident in 2001, the topic of "rescue medicine" began to attract global attention [9] . Disaster nursing came into being along with rescue medicine.…”