科研成果详情

The traditional Disaster Management Cycle describing the four stages of Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Mitigation is employed to provide guidelines for emergency management. The World Health Organization in 2019 based on the DM concept developed the Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Framework (Health-EDRM) to provide
guidelines for governments to counteract the effects of all disasters including that of a public health nature. Health EDRM recognized a number of paradigm shifts including that to all sectors approach and all community approach. Then as we all know the COVID-19 broke out
as an unprecedented pandemic that over 1.5 million of lives have up to now lost. Wuhan was the first hardest hit city in China and also in the world. Health-EDRM was put to test immediately and the merits as well as the inadequacies of the Health-EMDR framework can be examined against the COVID-19 attack. China has revamped its emergency management system and establish the Ministry of Emergency Management in 2019. The importance of grass root involvement in emergency prevention is fully recognized however the mechanism
of social psychological mobilization is still unaddressed. The aim of this paper is to discuss the needs for integrating social and psychological responses into the framework as revealed by the tremendous needs for psychological counseling and consequently the explosion of online counseling services for Wuhan residents manned by volunteer counselors all over China. A model of Emergency Management Hexagon composes of 12 emergency engineering has been proposed by Wong et al. in 2019. Adding to this Hexagon a framework of Social and Psychological EDRM is outlined in this paper. It is suggested that one more paradigm shift for Health-EDRM is to shift from focusing on physical health to focusing on holistic health, that is to develop SocioPsychological - EDRM.