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Developing New Information Sheets for Evacuees and Evacuation Centers to be Used During All Natural Disaster Phases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2020

Hiroyuki Kitano Open the ORCID record for Hiroyuki Kitano [Opens in a new window] ,
Mayumi Kako Open the ORCID record for Mayumi Kako [Opens in a new window] ,
Kazuhiro Tsuga ,
Hiroki Nikawa ,
Yukio Mikami ,
Hidehisa Yamashita ,
Minako Mori  and
Hiroki Ohge
Hiroyuki Kitano*
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima City, Japan
Mayumi Kako
Affiliation:
Program of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City, Japan
Kazuhiro Tsuga
Affiliation:
Department of Advanced Prosthodontics, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City, Japan
Hiroki Nikawa
Affiliation:
Department of Oral Biology and Engineering Integrated Health Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City, Japan
Yukio Mikami
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Kimiidera, Wakayama, Japan
Hidehisa Yamashita
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City, Japan
Minako Mori
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima City, Japan
Hiroki Ohge
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima City, Japan
*
Correspondence: Hiroyuki Kitano, MD, PhD, Department of Infection Diseases, Hiroshima University, 734-8551 Kasumi 1-2-3 Minamiku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan, E-mail: tanokin@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

Introduction:

Evacuees’ quality of life can be improved by investigating both their health problems and the conditions of evacuation centers during natural disasters.

Study Objective:

This study aims to develop new evacuee and evacuation center information sheets that focus on infection control, oral health and dentures, mental health, and rehabilitation during natural disasters.

Methods:

The analysis was conducted with the Delphi method by questioning doctors from various fields (infectious disease, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and dentistry) about the information that may be needed for evacuees and in the evacuation center environment.

Results:

Two information sheets were created in this study. One is an evacuation center environmental health assessment sheet that includes information about the overview of evacuees’ health and the evacuation center environment. The other is an evacuee registration sheet that would be completed by the evacuees themselves.

Conclusion:

The information sheets developed in this study will be useful in times of disaster because they have the potential to improve evacuee health conditions, as well as evacuation center environments.

Keywords

evacuation centerhealth assessmentinformation sheet
Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 2020 , pp. 683 - 687
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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