The Asia-Pacific region, the most disaster-prone region in the world, has at the core
of its health workforce nurses and midwives performing essential, foundational and
pivotal roles in disaster prevention, mitigation and management. The Role of Nurses
in Disaster Management in Asia Pacific highlights the contributions of nurses in
disaster preparedness and response, through ten illustrative disaster nursing case
studies of floods, cyclones or typhoons, earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as infectious
disease outbreak preparedness and response. The disasters depicted take place
in countries ranging from small Pacific islands, with populations of 105,000 to
China, with a population of over 1.3 billion.