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Open AccessBarriers and facilitating factors to healthcare accessibility among Nepalese migrants during COVID-19 crisis in Japan: an exploratory sequential mixed methods study
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global unity and timely access to healthcare for all including multilingual and intercultural societies. This study aimed to identify barriers to healthcare a...
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The Nurse’s Role in Achieving Health Equity in Disasters and Public Health Emergencies in Asia
The increasing frequency of natural and environmental disasters and public health emergencies emphasizes the importance of preparing the nursing profession to contribute to community mitigation and response. D...
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Case Studies of ICT/GIS Application for DRR
This chapter introduces suitable applications for disaster risk reduction (DRR) using information technologies and geospatial information in primary health care. We assessed the practices in aspects of (1) pro...
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Global Requirement to Disaster Nursing
Globalization affects various disasters and health risks. People benefit from globalization, but they are being exposed to its adverse effects and suffer from health problems. “Health” is a key dimension to be...
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Nursing Research on Disaster
One of the most critical roles of disaster nursing is “caring for health” in a local cultural environment. Nurses must develop an understanding of the local context of the study area to ensure a culturally app...
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Care for Disaster Risk Reduction
To provide care that leaves no one behind during a disaster, it is important to address the diversity of people living in society, and inclusion are important. This chapter describes the phenomenon of disaster...
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Research of Disaster Nursing in Japan 2005–2020
This chapter explains the concept analysis of disaster nursing and the progress and trends of current research in disaster nursing pre-post 2015. The research interest is relevant in today’s challenge in commu...
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Towards a People-Centered, Technology-Driven Society
The chapters summarized in this book revolve around a “people” centered approach connected to a technology-driven society. This chapter presents key challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for combini...
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The Sendai Framework and the Bangkok Principles for Nurses
This chapter attempts to read and understand the global roadmap of health security and implementation of health aspects of the Sendai Framework through the lens of disaster nursing, to interpret an effective a...
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Quantitative Approach for Assessment Health in Disaster
It is easy to imagine that the approach needed in a disaster situation would be clinical care, with the main focus on treating the injured and infected in front of us. In the very short term, this is true. How...
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Management of Health- and Disaster-Related Data
Prolonged health emergencies and disasters greatly affect health and well-being of individuals and communities. Past experiences on extreme emergencies and disasters have taught communities the value of prepar...
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Locality and Caring in Uncertainty
Disaster nursing in Japan currently focuses on meeting the needs of society, which requires expanding the role of nurses from providing primary health care in hospitals to working in the community. In response...
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Disaster Nursing Innovation for Sustainable Community
Although nursing has a long history of disaster relief, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 must have marked the beginning of disaster nursing research and education in earnest. This chapter describes t...
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Challenges of Global Health with Nursing
Disaster nursing is closely related to global health because global citizens need to be cared for to be born, live, and die in good health even when disasters occur. In addition to the health of people living ...
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Needs of Cultivating Seamless and Individual Care
To explain the extent of the roles of health care and nursing on disaster for securing health in the community on disaster, this chapter describes what is required of the nursing profession to prevent secondar...
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Science, Technology, Innovation and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Science and technology have been contributing to the advancement of disaster risk reduction approaches and saving people’s lives and properties. However, its nature, role and usage have changed over time. Send...
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XR and Implications to DRR: Challenges and Prospects
This chapter identifies issues in disaster education and explores necessary research and education based on lessons learned from the catastrophe and a compilation of existing efforts in Japan. Furthermore, on ...
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Co-evolution of Pandemic, Human Security, and Technology
COVID-19 pandemic has placed a huge burden on the healthcare system, and mainly on healthcare workers who have faced the biggest challenges and concerns in their health profession toward the unprecedented outb...
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Primary Health Care (PHC), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and Role of Local Caregiver
In recent years, disasters have become longer, more diverse, and more complex, limiting the ability to provide emergency, dissemination, and recovery support after a disaster. PHC facilities play a critical ro...
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Chronological Approach for Disaster Response and Monitoring
To protect people’s lives, health, and livelihoods from disasters, diverse social needs must be met by various organizations. To be a regional sustainability plan, local actions need to be carefully planned to...
