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Cross-Sectional Study on Risk of Flooding and Landslides and Their Associated Perceptions Among Home Health-Care Patients Living in Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Part of: Floods collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

Makoto Yoshida Open the ORCID record for Makoto Yoshida [Opens in a new window] ,
Hirotomo Miyatake Open the ORCID record for Hirotomo Miyatake [Opens in a new window] ,
Hidehisa Masunaga ,
Makoto Kosaka ,
Yudai Kaneda Open the ORCID record for Yudai Kaneda [Opens in a new window] ,
Yasuhiro Kotera Open the ORCID record for Yasuhiro Kotera [Opens in a new window] ,
Yoshitaka Nishikawa ,
Chie Tsunetoshi ,
Izumi Yoshida  and
Fubuki Ogawa
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Makoto Yoshida
Affiliation:
Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Hirotomo Miyatake*
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan
Hidehisa Masunaga
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan
Makoto Kosaka
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yudai Kaneda
Affiliation:
Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan
Yasuhiro Kotera
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Yoshitaka Nishikawa
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
Chie Tsunetoshi
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan
Izumi Yoshida
Affiliation:
Department of Dermatology and Allergology, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Fubuki Ogawa
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan
Akihiko Ozaki
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan Department of Breast and Throid Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan
Hiroyuki Beniya
Affiliation:
Orange Home-Care Clinic, Fukui, Japan
*
Corresponding author: Hirotomo Miyatake, Email: hmiyatake@orangeclinic.jp.
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Abstract

Objective:

This study aimed to evaluate a risk of flooding and landslides among home-care patients, to reveal an extent to which patients require support for evacuation, and to determine whether risk was accurately perceived among the patients.

Methods:

This is a cross-sectional study targeting the patients who were actively treated at the home-care clinic in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. We collected data on the patients’ sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Additionally, we collected data on their risk of flooding and landslides through hazard maps and distributed a questionnaire to these patients regarding their risk awareness of flooding and landslides.

Results:

Of the 199 eligible home-care patients, 84.9% (169 of 199) were at risk of flooding and/or landslides, and 58.6% (99 of 169) of them needs support during evacuation. Furthermore, of those who were at risk of flooding and/or landslides, 46.0% (45 of 99) had accurate risk assessments. Factors that resulted in inadequate risk awareness of flooding and landslides included: not placing importance on evacuation, not using medical equipment, and living on the first floor.

Conclusions:

There was limited risk awareness of flooding and/or landslides among the home-care patients. The information of the risk factors regarding inadequate risk awareness of flooding and landslides should be used to sophisticate flooding and landslides evacuation strategy.

Keywords

primary preventiondisaster medicinedisastersfloodspatient transfer
Type
Original Research
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e264
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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