We carried out disaster mitigation education to all the 600 Eigashima junior high school students of Akashi city on November 29. The human rights education which included disaster r mitigation education by cooperation with a junior high school, the Akashi disaster prevention safety division, and university were performed for 90 minutes. 30 quiz which chooses one from two was set. I explained the question about disaster nursing. Further“Does tsunami come to our town?” “Which area is vulnerable to a disaster?”“ If a support person required is found in a shelter, what do you do?” Although there was also a difficult problem of judgment, we were able to train about their own judgment and decision to the junior high school student.

We carried out disaster mitigation education to 37 second graders of kinugawa junior high school students of Akashi city on November 10.17.24. This plan is the 6th year by this year. The first time: Article creation convenient at the time of a disaster. The second time: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED . The third time: How to avoid a trouble with the others in a shelter..37 third-year students in a junior high school received disaster mitigation education for two consecutive years. How much was the effect to them?

Research Institute of Nursing Care for People and Community,University of Hyogo was redesignated as a WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing in Disasters and Health Emergency Management on June 14th 2011.
Many disasters happened in Japan and over the world. We recognize our role and resposibility and we will act as WHO Collaborating Center.

We went to the Miyagi Prefecture’s evacuation center for nursing care in the stricken area of the East Japan Earthquake 18 to 23 March. This picture is the evacuation center’s photo in the Higashimatsushima-cho. We accepted the new 100 refugee in this place and we practiced about health check, environment assessment, check of refugee’s medical prescription and assistance of physician. Tomorrow, we collaborated with the stricken area’s nursing association for making evacuations assessment in these area. Next day, we established the new medical treatment base with Hyogo Physician Association in this evacuation center at the coast area in Ishinomaki city. We intend to continue practicing for two months.(Hatsumi Kanzaki)

Hp was update as The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake.

The program was conducted with JICA Hyogo.
Participants came from China and Thailand.
They will stay and study in one month

Please tell these guidelines to your acquaintance who relates to Haiti.

This event was gathered to encourage an exchange of feelings on "January 17th"
We participated in this event to introduce our activity.
So many people came to our booth and they tried to the “What your national ranking in survival capability” http://www.coe-cnas.jp/english/index.html
I met the people who are not able to prepare in spite of they were suffered from this erathquake.
While the people who are able to prepare perfectly with the earthquake as a lesson.
”So as not to forget that fateful day”　is very important keyword for us.
In the exhibition booth, I enlightened the importance of preparedness in the disaster with the possibility of occurring to visitor as follows.
In spite of the congestion, many people talked to me about the recalled those days of earthquake occurring and their present days

We joined the Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing network (APEDNN)
We joined the Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing network (APEDNN) 27 Sep to 2 Oct at the James Cook University at Cairns in Australia.
We talked about the Disaster mitigation Education for Junior High School Students in the Community as a part of Integrated Learning Course at APEDNN.

We carried out the assessment of participants using the disaster check tools for earthquakes and flood.
Participants reflected on their preparedness of disaster, they learned about it.

We went to the nursing support in Sayo-cho after the flood damage of Typhoon No.9.
We practiced it in cooperation with the Hyogo nursing association and the Japan Sciety of disaster nursing.
We based on Kuzaki elementary school refuge in the Sayo-cho, we conducted the health survey to the victim houses in the Kouzuki region and the Sayo region.

As of 10:00, 18 May 2009, Japan has officially reported 92 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection in Kobe and Osaka. We are facing the possibility of an influenza pandemic because the human population has no immunity to this novel influenza virus. However, the new influenza is considered less deadly than some previous viruses, and we ask you to react calmly and not to panic. To reduce the risk of infection, we recommend you to stay home if possible and avoid crowded settings and close contact with others. Take measures for usual cold prevention such as washing hands with soap and water, gargling, wearing a mask, covering your mouth when coughing, and practicing good health habits including adequate sleep, eating nutritious food, and keeping physically active. Please make sure 2-week emergency food is stored at your home!
It is reported that people are rushing into convenience and drug stores and flu masks were quickly sold out. This has caused overcrowding and has increased the risk of infection. You do not have to check every drugstore in your town for masks. Just staying home is often a better prevention method than looking for masks in a crowded place.
We also recommend you to check the fliers on the influenza A(H1N1) published by Hyogo Prefecture and to get updated and reliable information through TV, Internet, etc.

Theme: "Towards creating a new domain of nursing knowledge"
Venue: Kobe International Exhibition Hall, Japan
Date: September 19-20, 2009
Chairperson of the First International
Nursing Research Conference is Aiko YAmamoto who is our Institute direstor. Details are here.

We continue liaising with the city’s disaster prevention section and secondary schools to hold comprehensive disaster preventive lessons for the local secondary school student from 2007 fiscal year. It is include which lectures, simulation of shelter and make a map of community’s dangerous place in ten hours school hours.We began to the game of the president of the society in the simulation of shelter.

On May 24, 2007, the Research Institute of Nursing Care for People and Community (RINCPC) was designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nursing in Disasters and Health Emergency Management (WHO Disaster Nursing Collaborating Centre). On Tuesday June 12, 2007, a designation ceremony and inaugural forum were held with approximately 150 attendees, including 50 guests, 75 faculty members and 35 graduate students.

Details are here.