Abstract
HUG (Hinanjo Un-ei Game), an evacuation shelter simulation game developed by Shizuoka Prefecture, was adopted as the base for promoting cross-organizational and multidisciplinary collaboration in local communities. HUG is a simulation game in which participants place the cards containing evacuees personal information such as their age, gender, citizenship, and special circumstances into the floor plans assuming the gym and classrooms in the evacuation shelter. Participants experience finding solutions to various events occurring in the evacuation center. The game experience gives participants the opportunity to determine how to assign evacuees to individual rooms while considering the needs of evacuees requiring special assistance. The program also allows public health nurses, disaster prevention managers, and other government employees to gain experience in dealing with more than 100 issues that must be considered in improving the environment and safety of pregnant and nursing women and children. This experience will be useful especially for training voluntary disaster relief organizations that play a central role in operating evacuation shelters.
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Abbreviations
- AHRQ:
-
Agency for healthcare research and quality
- ALSO:
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Advanced life support in obstetrics
- BLSO:
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Basic life support in obstetrics
- DMAT:
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Disaster medical assistance team
- EMIS:
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Emergency medical information system
- HUG:
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Hinanjo Un-ei Game
- JTAS:
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Japanese Triage and Acuity Scale
- MCH:
-
Maternal and child health
- STEPPS:
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Strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety
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This study was supported by the following research grants:
1. Health and Labor Sciences Research Grants (Research on Health Security Control) “Research on the Development of a Regional Collaborative Disaster Prevention System Including the Operation of Welfare Shelters for Those Who Require Assistance in Times of Disaster with the Central Focus on Pregnant and Nursing Women and Infants” (Research representative: Honami Yoshida, 2013–2015).
2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research “Maternal and Child Health Required in Times of Disaster - from Research on the Impacts of the GEJE on Maternal and Child Health” (Research representative: Honami Yoshida, 2012–2014).
The author thanks Dr. Kentaro Hayashi and others who provided help at the Primary Care for All Team (PCAT), PCOT project members that include Dr. Hiroshi Ota, Dr. Yumie Ikeda, Dr. Keiko Otsuka, Ms. Yukari Endo, and Mw. Shoko So, who have contributed to developing training for rescuing pregnant and nursing women in times of disaster; and Dr. Yosuke Fujioka and Dr. Shinji Tsunawaki who have worked to address the needs of pregnant women from the inception of the PCAT. The author also thanks Mw. Naoko Nakane for her dedicated education on this field.
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Yoshida, H. (2021). Importance of Cross-Organizational Collaboration for Disaster Preparedness for Maternal and Child Health Care. In: Lessons Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4391-8_3
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