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The roll of Children in Disaster Risk Reduction
Leila Mohammadinia1,2, Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh3,4, Ali Ardalan1,5
1-Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran/2- Health Human Resource Research Center, School of Management &Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
3-Department of Health in Disaster and Emergency, School of HSE, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran/4-Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
5- Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Abstract
Background: Children are a major group who are affected by natural and manmade disasters in the word. So, Children as vulnerable group should be considered in disaster risk reduction policies. The main objective of this study is being attention to children in disaster situations by positivism approach that would be child capacity in disaster risk reduction.
Method: This is a qualitative study design focusing on the positive role of children in disasters and disaster risk reduction. Several peer review group discussions had been done by national and international experts. Major related databases were evaluated to make evidence base documents and assess if the hypothesis-children has capacity that should be consider in disaster risk reduction- is worth to be consider or not. Principle investigator had participated at international conferences and meeting to find the key person for the question. I had contacted with experts in the field of child, disaster and disaster risk reduction by face-to-face interview at international conferences and also Skype interview had been held and followed by emails to extract data according the study aim. Furthermore, contextual analysis was used for data synthesis.
Finding and conclusions: In new approach it is believed that children have potential capacity instead of vulnerability. Accordingly, children ability should be recognized to improve risk reduction programs in the community and in this way decrease the consequence of disasters on children health and their happiness. Up to now, because of less attentions to child capacity in disaster risk reduction schedule’s ; it is necessary that policy makers concentrate on further concentrations regarding to how they use the children potential capacity for both natural and manmade events. |