A development of disaster risk profile in public healthcare system during flood situation : a case study of Nakhon Sawan city municipality, Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand

Abstract

This research begins with the idea of the disaster risk assessment included in the disaster management’s well recognized international framework, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Then, the idea settles from the risk assessment concept combined with the emergency management knowledge that has the critical infrastructure topic, including the public healthcare system. The flood disaster is the kind of disaster that frequently occurs in Thailand and the study area, Nakhon Sawan City Municipality. Thus, this research aims to study disaster risk profiles in the public healthcare system in a specific local area. The outcome from this research is the disaster risk profile and the development guideline developed from this research. In addition, the literature review part shows the gap of knowledge of the risk profile from previous studies. As the review process, results about the development objective mainly focus on the policy level of the management criteria and the country level in the size of the study. Therefore, this research mainly follows and implements the UNDRR’s guideline in disaster risk profile development as the primary development idea. It also conducts along with the evaluation process to gather comments from experts and operational staff. At the beginning of the study, the research results visualize by the diagram of the operational activities during flood disasters based on the 2011 Thailand floods. These diagrams focus on the organizations related to the public healthcare system in the study area as a stakeholder role. The process of the stakeholders’ analysis uses to find the interrelation form of the organizations during a disaster. The risk profile develops from the historical data and analysis process with the concept of the risk assessment. This study also includes the evaluation process from the experts and operational staff to improve the risk profile’s accuracy and adaptability. The discussion part explains the risk profile guideline development for further implementation of this kind of risk profile in the different areas in the future. In the final part of the research, the conclusion shows suggestions both in the policy suggestion and research suggestion in the future from findings.