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Chinese Disasters and Just-in-Time Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Yingyun Yang ,
Yanwen Chen ,
Rashid A. Chotani ,
Ronald E. LaPorte ,
Ali Ardalan ,
Eugene Shubnikov ,
Faina Linkov  and
Jesse Huang
Yingyun Yang*
Affiliation:
Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China
Yanwen Chen
Affiliation:
Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China
Rashid A. Chotani
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Supercourse Faculty, Global Health Network, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Ronald E. LaPorte
Affiliation:
Supercourse Faculty, Global Health Network, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Telecommunications and Disease Monitoring, WHO Collaborating Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Ali Ardalan
Affiliation:
Supercourse Faculty, Global Health Network, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Eugene Shubnikov
Affiliation:
Supercourse Faculty, Global Health Network, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
Faina Linkov
Affiliation:
Supercourse Faculty, Global Health Network, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Jesse Huang
Affiliation:
Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China
*
Peking Union Medical College, 9 Dong Dan San Tiao, Beijing 100730, P.R.China, E-mail: pumcjesse@yahoo.com.cn
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Abstract

Just-in-time ( JIT) Educational Strategy has been applied successfully to share scientific knowledge about disasters in several countries. This strategy was introduced to China in 2008 with the hopes to quickly disseminate accurate scientific data to the population, and it was applied during the Sichuan Earthquake and Influenza A (H1N1) outbreak. Implementation of this strategy likely educated between 10,000 and 20,000,000 people. The efforts demonstrated that an effective JIT strategy impacted millions of people in China after a disaster occurs as a disaster mitigation education method. This paper describes the Chinese JIT approach, and discusses methodologies for implementing JIT lectures in the context of China's medical and public health system.

Keywords

Chinadisastereducationinternetjust-in-timeinfluenza A (H1N1)outbreakpandemicSupercourseswine flu
Type
Brief Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 477 - 481
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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