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    Sakiko Kanbara, Shoko Miyagawa, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, editors.
    Summary: The primary aim of this textbook is to contribute towards the promotion of human security by educating nurses with a profound understanding of disaster nursing and to conduct innovative research and practices in cooperation. This textbook emphasizes on multi-professional connections; offers knowledge on how Japanese disaster nursing got evolved in changing social contexts and provides various case studies that reflect wonderful practices in the disaster nursing field which have contributed to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and sustainable human security. Frequent disasters have triggered the need for more trans-disciplinary work, high-level care throughout all phases of a disaster event, and the need for nursing leaders. Apart from hospitals, in local communities, nurses can take a role to mitigate health risks. Being a member of every part of the healthcare system, they can become critically needed leaders in emergency management and disaster preparedness. This work includes a DRR Framework and the application to disaster nursing, information on preparedness and community resilience and on the related disciplines and coordination with disaster nursing. It informs on the challenges in disaster nursing, offers instructional design, education development and research in disaster nursing. Students, professional nurses, clinicians, community health practitioners, health volunteers, disaster support organizations, researchers, and community partners who are involved in the care of disaster survivors can use this resource. Written by distinguished experts with diverse backgrounds of nursing, public health, health informatics, and geography, this book shows how practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and multiple community stakeholders who can collaborate effectively and efficiently to restore primary health care of survivors after a local disaster.

    Contents:
    Part 1: Global health and Care for Disaster Risk Reduction
    1. Disaster Nursing for Sustainable Community
    2. Disaster and global health issues
    3. Challenges of Global Health with Nursing
    4. Care for Disaster Risk Reduction
    5. Disaster health in shelters in Japan
    6. Research of Disaster Nursing in Japan 2005-2020
    7. Nursing Experience on disaster and health emergency
    8. The Sendai Framework and the Bangkok Principles for Nurses
    9. History of the Development of Competencies for Disaster Nursing
    10. Capacity Development and the Instructional Design for Achievement Goal
    11. Nursing Research on Disaster
    Part 3: Fostering Care in Sustainable Community
    12. Needs of Cultivating Seamless and Individual Care
    13. Primary Health Care (PHC), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Role of a local nurse
    14. Key Players of Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in DRR
    15. Roles, Rules, and Tools for National Humanitarian Networks on H-EDRM
    16. Community resilience, disaster nursing and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
    17. Caring Ecosystems for Area-Capability
    18. Big challenge for SDGs: Case Study: COVID-19
    Part 4: Assesing Care for DIsasser RIsk Reduction
    19. Quantative approach for Assesment Health in Disaster
    20. Qualitative Approaches to Investigating Health in Disaster: Cases from Nepal and Japan
    21. Chronological Approach for Disaster Response and Monitoring
    22. Introduction to EpiNurse
    Part 5:Decision making for people centered H-EDRM
    23. Risk-based / System-based approach for people centered H-EDRM
    24. Personal Life Records for Health Decision-Making in Disaster Situations
    25. Management of Health and Disaster-related Data
    26. Geographic Information System
    27. Designing decision support systems in DRR
    28. Case studies of ICT/ GIS Application for DRR - Way to Forward : Challenges,Ethics
    29. Locality and Caring in Uncertainty
    30. Care for Disaster Risk Reduction and Communication: Lessons Learned and Way to Forward.
    Digital Access Springer 2022