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Integrated Healthcare as the Future of Disaster Recovery Potential in Tohoku Region

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Disaster Recovery

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When disaster first strikes, accidents or emergencies are the most common reasons for people to seek healthcare. In most cases, the rapid response of local providers of care, disaster medical assistance teams, volunteers, and others help to assure that accident and emergency patients receive appropriate intervention. Depending on the nature and extent of the disaster, its aftermath is the time when the primary healthcare system may be least able to provide needed services. A healthcare system, especially one serving the poor, may have been inadequate or overburdened before the disaster, and its ability to respond is often adversely affected by destroyed or damaged buildings and equipment, lack of drugs and other supplies, and increased shortage of healthcare providers. This chapter describes the cases of Kamaishi, Kesennuma and Natori from the affected region of Tohoku by the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Analyzing the past and current healthcare system of these cities, the chapter provides a sustainable integrated model, which needs to be linked to daily health issues, and which is build on the community networks health volunteers, and mutual trusts among the community members.

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The author acknowledges JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science), CWS (Church World Services) Asia Pacific, and MERCY Malaysia for financial support.

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    Kenji Isayama

  2. International Environment and Disaster Management, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Rajib Shaw

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Isayama, K., Shaw, R. (2014). Integrated Healthcare as the Future of Disaster Recovery Potential in Tohoku Region. In: Shaw, R. (eds) Disaster Recovery. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54255-1_19

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