Assessment of Knowledge on Disaster Preparedness among Adult in a Selected Rural Community at Kanchipuram District Tamil Nadu, India

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Tamil Nadu

scholarly journals (A296) Psychosocial Disaster Preparedness Program Form School Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s83-s83 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.A. Raj ◽  
K. Sekar
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The impact of natural disasters on individuals is substantial. Among the affected population in any disaster, children are identified as the most vulnerable group along with women, aged and disabled people. An estimated 77 million children under 15, on average, had their lives severely disrupted by a natural disaster or an armed conflict, each year, between 1991 and 2000 (Plan UK, 2003). Children are most affected since they loose the familiar environment, loss of parents, witness death of their loved ones, fear of reoccurrence of the disaster event. The impact of disaster on children of different age group is multiple times greater than that of the adults. This leads to various psychological problems in children (Dave et al., 2003). Disaster preparedness, through care givers, is one among the ways to reduce the distress of individuals followed by any disaster because it reduces the vulnerability factor that minimizes the impact of any disaster on the individual. A disaster preparedness program with special reference to psychosocial aspects was developed and implemented among the school children through teachers in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India, one of the severely affected areas in Tsunami. The current attempt was to standardize a disaster preparedness module focusing on preparing children to deal with their psychosocial issues before and after disaster in an effective manner. The outcome of disaster preparedness input through teachers and its reach out to the students was determined through an experimental research. The results reveal that the teachers and students from the experimental group gained significantly more knowledge on psychosocial disaster preparedness after implementation of the program in comparison to control group where the program was not implemented. The implications of the study points out the need to integrate psychosocial component of disaster preparedness in to the broader Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) programs.

Nutritional anemia in a rural community in Tamil Nadu

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
JohnP Mechenro ◽  
BuvneshM Kumar ◽  
KR John ◽  
Doraiswamy Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Nutritional Anemia

scholarly journals Nurses’s knowledge and attitude in facing potential landslide disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Dwi Wahyu Sani S Karenhadi ◽  
Indah Dwi Pratiwi ◽  
Risa Herlianita ◽  
Indri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Community Health Center ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Rural Community Health ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

Landslide is one of the natural disasters which cause not only infrastructure damage but also death. Nurses have a role in disaster management at the phase of mitigation to rehabilitation during landslide disasters.  This study is aimed to analyze nurses' knowledge and attitudes in the face of future landslide disasters. A quantitative method with a descriptive design was used in the study. The respondents in this study were 20 nurses who work at one rural community health center in Malang. Data were collected using a questionnaire. From the current research, most respondents had been involved in disaster emergency response activities (85%), had good knowledge (75%), and all nurses (100%) had a positive attitude towards landslide disaster preparedness. From this current study, nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards preparedness for facing landslides might be essential to build more awareness among nurses in preparing the community in facing landslides; thus, the impact of the disaster could be decreased.

Comparison of Disaster Preparedness Between Urban and Rural Community Hospitals in New York State

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 424-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan J. Vick ◽  
Asa B. Wilson ◽  
Michael Fisher ◽  
Carrie Roseamelia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
New York State ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Community Hospitals ◽  
Disaster Plan ◽  
Surge Capacity ◽  
York State ◽  
And Training

ABSTRACTObjectiveThe intent of this study was to determine whether there are differences in disaster preparedness between urban and rural community hospitals across New York State.MethodsDescriptive and analytical cross-sectional survey study of 207 community hospitals; thirty-five questions evaluated 6 disaster preparedness elements: disaster plan development, on-site surge capacity, available materials and resources, disaster education and training, disaster preparedness funding levels, and perception of disaster preparedness.ResultsCompleted surveys were received from 48 urban hospitals and 32 rural hospitals.There were differences in disaster preparedness between urban and rural hospitals with respect to disaster plan development, on-site surge capacity, available materials and resources, disaster education and training, and perception of disaster preparedness. No difference was identified between these hospitals with respect to disaster preparedness funding levels.ConclusionsThe results of this study provide an assessment of the current state of disaster preparedness in urban and rural community hospitals in New York. Differences in preparedness between the two settings may reflect differing priorities with respect to perceived threats, as well as opportunities for improvement that may require additional advocacy and legislation. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:424-428)

Why Institutional Partnerships Matter

2010 ◽  
pp. 330-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Regional Innovation Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Voice Chat ◽  
Local Ngo ◽  
Institutional Linkages

This chapter examines the role of institutional partnerships in making the ICT for development projects more successful and sustainable in developing countries. Employing a regional innovation systems (RIS) perspective, I examine this issue in the context of lessons drawn from the failure of telecenters in Melur taluka of Tamil Nadu under the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) project. These telecenters aimed at delivering a host of services such as email, voice chat, health, e-government, and agricultural and veterinary services to the rural community. They were operated by two sets of operators: self-employed local entrepreneurs and a local NGO. After operating for nearly three years, most of the kiosks run by the self-employed entrepreneurs had closed down by mid-2005, whereas those run by the NGO were still operating. Using primary data from interviews with the kiosk owners and operators, I argue that the failure of the kiosks to sustain themselves was due to weak institutional linkages and networking among actors in the local and regional innovation systems, and the inability of the RIS to evolve and respond effectively and quickly to the changing preferences and needs of the rural community. I conclude that ensuring a project’s success and sustainability requires the presence of an effective regional innovation system with strong but flexible and dynamic linkages among the relevant actors such as the state, universities, private sector, civil society organizations, the user community, and the funding organizations.

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