Guiding Documents for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Health Care System of Nepal

The incidence of disaster events has increased over the years. Nepal is vulnerable to various kinds of natural disasters especially earthquakes and floods and infectious disease outbreaks like Dengue and Covid-19 pneumonia. So, it is important to review and know our existing disaster risk reduction...

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Autores principales: Rijal, Suraj, Adhikari, Sunil, Shrestha, Ashis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7654482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34504377
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5041
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description The incidence of disaster events has increased over the years. Nepal is vulnerable to various kinds of natural disasters especially earthquakes and floods and infectious disease outbreaks like Dengue and Covid-19 pneumonia. So, it is important to review and know our existing disaster risk reduction and management plans, rules, and regulations of our country to improve disaster risk management for resilience and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to "Build Back Better: in recovery rehabilitation and reconstruction." Nepal has sufficient guiding documents to guide disaster management.
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spelling pubmed-76544822020-11-30 Guiding Documents for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Health Care System of Nepal Rijal, Suraj Adhikari, Sunil Shrestha, Ashis JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Viewpoint The incidence of disaster events has increased over the years. Nepal is vulnerable to various kinds of natural disasters especially earthquakes and floods and infectious disease outbreaks like Dengue and Covid-19 pneumonia. So, it is important to review and know our existing disaster risk reduction and management plans, rules, and regulations of our country to improve disaster risk management for resilience and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to "Build Back Better: in recovery rehabilitation and reconstruction." Nepal has sufficient guiding documents to guide disaster management. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020-10 2020-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7654482/ /pubmed/34504377 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5041 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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