Disaster Preparedness for Effective Response: Guidance and Indicator Package for Implementing Priority Five of the Hyogo Framework (UN, 2008).

in The Interplay Between Urban Development, Vulnerability, and Risk Management 7–43 (Springer, 2013).

Therefore, observation of home preparatory behaviours by an external source may be a way to extend multihazard preparedness across a population. An unintended consequence of observation is that it may increase preparedness, as even the control groups changed their behaviour. High baseline outcome expectancy and home ownership predicted overall preparedness change in both intervention groups longitudinally, implying that a sense of agency influences preparedness. Compared to baseline, the primary outcome-overall preparedness-increased significantly in the intervention groups, with more improvement in earthquake preparedness in the Turkish participants and more improvements in fire preparedness in the US participants. We show that this Fix-it intervention, involving evidence-based, face-to-face workshops, increased multihazard preparedness in both cultures longitudinally. Therefore, we conducted a controlled intervention with a 12-month follow-up on adults in communities in the United States and Turkey that focused on improving household earthquake and fire preparedness. In addition, few hazard-preparedness interventions have been evaluated longitudinally using observational measures.

It is therefore crucial that households increase their preparedness, yet adoption of household preparedness measures continues to be low, even in high-risk regions 5, 6, 7, 8.

In parallel, the responsibility for natural hazard preparedness has shifted to communities and individuals 4. Vulnerability to natural disasters is increasing globally 1, 2, 3.

Download red cross fire alarm