The Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute (HKJCDPRI) initiated the disaster education programme for primary schools and kindergartens in 2019.
The programme for kindergartens is a joint efforts with the Child Education Centre for Teaching and Learning (CECTL) under the Department of Childcare, Elderly and Community Services of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), specialised training and teaching support with an aim of developing a school-based disaster education were provided to the teaching staff of kindergartens. Watch the feature story on our kindergarten disaster education programme,
For programme for primary schools, interactive drama are conducted to convey key disaster knowledge, risk concepts and proper attitudes in the face of emergencies around them and the community. Watch the feature story on our primary school disaster education programme conducted by the Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
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Natural hazards have direct and indirect health impacts. Apart from physical and mental trauma, other health impacts include malnutrition, disrupted disease treatment plans, and risk of infectious diseases. Health impacts may be mitigated through health-related emergency and disaster risk management (Health-EDRM). They are systematic analysis and management of health risks through the reduction of hazards and vulnerability in all stages of the disaster management cycle, from prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response to recovery (Lo et al., 2017; World Health Organization [WHO], 2019).

This module is a selected module from the Disaster Medicine 202 which is a Disaster Medicine introductory course developed by the Emergency Medicine Unit of The University of Hong Kong for the Faculty of Medicine.