TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Evaluation of regional vulnerability to disasters by people of Ishikawa, Japan: a cross sectional study using national health insurance data
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Fujiu, Makoto
A1  - Morisaki, Yuma
A1  - Takayama, Junichi
A1  - Yanagihara, Kiyoko
A1  - Nishino, Tatsuya
A1  - Sagae, Masahiko
A1  - Hirako, Kohei
SP  - e15030507
EP  - e15030507
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
N2  - The 2013 Partial Amendment of the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Law mandated that a roster of vulnerable persons during disasters be created, and further development of evacuation support is expected. In this study, the number of vulnerable people living in target analytical areas are identified in terms of neighborhood units by using the National Health Insurance Database to create a realistic and efficient evacuation support plan. Later, after considering the "vulnerability" of an area to earthquake disaster damage, a quantitative evaluation of the state of the disaster is performed using a principle component analysis that further divided the analytical target areas into neighborhood units to make a detailed determination of the number of disaster-vulnerable persons, the severity of the disaster, etc. The results of the disaster evaluation performed after considering the vulnerability of an area are that 628 disaster-vulnerable persons live in areas with a relatively higher disaster evaluation value.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030507
ID  - ref1
ER  -