Self-efficacy and barriers to disaster evacuation in Hong Kong

Abstract

Hong Kong has established effective strategies for emergency response, but concerns regarding evacuation and mobilisation remain. The findings indicate that improving self-efficacy for disaster response has potential to increase evacuation readiness.

The mental health effects of visa insecurity for refugees and people seeking asylum: a latent class analysis

“…Latent class analysis (LCA) was conducted in MPLUS 6 (Muthén and Muthén 2010), using a maximum likelihood estimator. LCA is a person-centred form of finite mixture modelling, used to identify unobserved latent variables that represent subgroups of individuals within cross-sectional data (Marsh et al 2009;Muthén and Muthén 2010;Newnham et al 2017). LCA estimates a model for the population from which sample data are taken, and an individual's probability of belonging to a certain group is estimated.…”

“…Multinomial logistic regression was then conducted in MPLUS (Muthén and Muthén 2010). A model-based approach was implemented to investigate predictors of class membership.…”

Rebuilding Earthquake Struck Nepal through Community Engagement

“…Given the status of disaster management at the national level, the vertical governance structure at the local level was bound to experience failure ( 24 ). Increasingly, in recent years, community participatory approaches to disaster management are recommended, ranging from the Ebola containment in West Africa ( 17 , 25 ) to disaster preparedness management in Hong Kong ( 26 ).…”

“…A community-focused approach to inform, empower, and build the capacity for disaster preparedness and mitigation can be more effective than even the robust disaster plans of skilled workers. A disaster preparedness program where contingency plans and disaster drills have been carefully considered and rehearsed with the community can be learned from Hong Kong ( 26 ).…”

“…Establishing community preparedness by delivering knowledge about the disasters, preparing contingency plans, and conducting preemptive disaster drills can be highly effective in remediating disasters; and this is even more evident in a country like Nepal where geography and accessibilities are often factors that impede professionally trained internal and external experts from acting urgently during disaster situations ( 26 ). In addition, building community (local) capacity to deal with disaster situations can further fill the time lapse (time taken by government/disaster reduction agencies to reach the communities), while strengthening the coordination with disaster reduction strategies of government and non-government organizations.…”