Social component in community health resilience to earthquake: Theoretical and empirical study

Hospital response readiness to earthquakes is influenced by the dynamic interaction with dimensions at the system level (disaster management preparedness), group level (leadership

In consideration of the interdependency of the community systems, technical infrastructure, hospital, and residents are considered the key elements affecting community health resilience.

Social component demonstrates the adaptive capacity in the community system, which considers each system as an active agent to react upon the perturbations, creates the dynamic reciprocal interactions between technical infrastructure, hospital, and resident, critical for community health resilience.

The mechanism model of hospital response readiness to earthquakes.

By adopting the concept of disaster risk management and stakeholder theory, a modified Delphi technique was applied to develop an evaluation indicator system of infrastructure resilience management. The identified indicators were further integrated into an infrastructure resilience management maturity model to provide a useful guideline for evaluating the status quo of the infrastructure resilience management, identifying the weaknesses, and suggesting priority for improvement.

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Research Overview

Community health resilience to earthquakes refers to the capacity of a community to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the impact of earthquakes so as to reduce mortality and morbidity of the local community. Technical infrastructure, hospitals, and residents are the key elements in community health resilience. The current studies mainly focus on the technical component in these key elements and neglect the social component attributed to individual and organizational behavior responding to the post-earthquake environment that is crucial for community health resilience. This study aims to explore the mechanism of social components in these three key elements to provide a theoretical basis and decision-making support for improving community health resilience to earthquakes.

Research Team

Huey Wen Lim

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China: 2018YFC0809900, 2018.07-2021.06

National Natural Science Foundation of China: U1709212, 2018-2021; 71974106, 2020.01.01-2023.12.31