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Breakout Session 3 Summary: Psychosocial/Mental Health Concerns and Building Community Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2014

Hiroaki Tomita  and
Robert J. Ursano
Hiroaki Tomita
Affiliation:
Department of Disaster Psychiatry, Internal Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Robert J. Ursano
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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Cross-cutting principle

  • ∙ Mental health working group supports the “proposed Key messages – People’s health” of the WHO. Proposed key messages are fundamental principles in support of health including mental health. Our work group’s statement builds on these principles to emphasize the importance of attending to mental health across all phases of Disaster Risk Management (DRM): prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

  • ∙ Changing behaviors can affect a large outcome from disasters

  • ∙ Strategic and tactical approaches to include mental health in the curriculum

  • ∙ Strong emphasis on using WHO language to maintain the same universal terminology

Type
Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action Special section
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 363 - 365
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2014 

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