The Utilization of MHealth for Assessing Child Safety Education Is A Necessity

Abstract

In the last 10 years, disasters have caused huge casualties that affected the welfare and safety of people and countries. More than 700 thousand people have lost their lives, more than 1.4 million injured and around 23 million have lost homes due to disaster. The impact of disasters on children is far greater than on adults. For this reason, the development of effective instruments is important to increase public awareness and education, especially user-friendly instruments that can be used to assess children's safety education. Instruments will increase an understanding on disaster risk and encourage all stakeholders to be actively involved in reducing multi-hazard risk, especially starts from the school. The method used in this research was a systematic review. The articles were obtained by searching through electronic databases available at EBSCO, PubMed, Science Direct, SAGE Journal, ProQuest and Emerald Insight, which were published in English, between January 2009 and January 2019. Only two of 114 articles met the inclusion criteria; by the research reviewed, there was no very specific research that used m-health to assess child safety education especially at school. Therefore, in the future, it is necessary to develop further research related this issue.

Implementation of Emergency Response System in Elementary School as an Effort to Increase Safety Culture from an Early Age

“…In disaster mitigation, the lack of awareness of available resources and the need for teacher training is the biggest challenge in efforts to optimize existing resources. Therefore, increasing the use of resources such as: using web-based technology for teacher training, integrating disaster preparedness messages into children's programs, continuous evaluation systems, including disaster education content as a prerequisite in the curriculum, and adding voluntary teaching as a one of the national strategies for integrating disaster education curricula is important to do (Indonesia, 2018;Johnson, Ronan, Johnston, & Peace, 2014;Widowati, Husodo, Istiono, & Lazuardi, 2019).…”

Pendidikan Keselamatan Melalui Penyusunan Surveilans Kesehatan Berbasis Sekolah (Sebagai Upaya Mitigasi Covid-19 di Sekolah)

“…Sistem surveilans kesehatan yang user friendly dapat dikembangkan melalui mobile-health atau m-health sehingga memudahkan user untuk melakukan entri data kapan dan dimana saja. Selain itu m-health sangat potensial tidak hanya digunakan sebagai sistem surveilans kesehatan namun juga bisa dikembangkan untuk melakukan penilaian pendidikan keselamatan anak secara lebih komprehensif di sekolah (Widowati, Husodo, Istiono, & Lazuardi, 2019).…”

Are Elementary Schools Ready for Disaster Preparedness and Safety?

“…Regarding landslides, Indonesia is still leading out of 162 countries in casualties (197,372 victims) compared to India (180,254 victims). In terms of the earthquake, Indonesia is ranked third out of 153 countries regarding the number of affected people (11,056,806 people) (2).…”

“…Injury, death and property damage can be reduced, and school resilience can be improved if schools could practice disaster management comprehensively (multi-hazardbased), especially if they have an assessment software that supports the disaster management in schools which allows structured and systematic self-evaluation (9,10). However, Widowati et al (2019) conducted a systematic review through electronic databases could not find any mobile health applications (app) that assess multi-hazardbased child safety education in schools. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a safety education assessment tool in schools that can later be improved into a mobile health application assessment tool (11).…”

“…However, Widowati et al (2019) conducted a systematic review through electronic databases could not find any mobile health applications (app) that assess multi-hazardbased child safety education in schools. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a safety education assessment tool in schools that can later be improved into a mobile health application assessment tool (11).…”