Model of disaster preparedness in aboriginal tribes: Exemplified by an aboriginal village in Taitung in “Typhoon Morakot”

• Main Authors: Shih-Han Huang, 黃仕涵
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80076835649661889742

碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 公共衛生學系碩士班 === 99 === In 2009, Typhoon Morakot caused major devastating disasters in Taiwan. Current disaster response mechanism in Taiwan can be divided into country, county and township. However, there are not many community response plans that meet current response mechanism, especially the ones in rural area or aboriginal tribes. The aim of the research is to discuss the disaster experiences in aboriginal tribes and establish disaster prevention and response mechanism for aboriginal tribes. Semi-structured interview was applied as the research method and 19 residents from an aboriginal tribe in Taitung were interviewed. Research result shows that the actions of the residents took were river patrolling, notifying, evacuating, property rescuing, danger zone blocking, victim settling and resource managing. Although there were existed organizations and labor in the tribes, chaos was caused in the disaster area as the command systems of the tribe and the administrative unit worked simultaneously. After checking with the eight items in “Disaster paradigm”, tribal rescue includes detection, incident command, scene safety and security, assess hazard, support and evacuation. Triage and recovery are handled by the administrative unit. In summary, the research concludes that the “Model of disaster preparedness Aboriginal tribe” in aboriginal community should include a cycle of alerting, responding, settlement management and disaster preparedness. As the people, culture and environment of each aboriginal tribe in Taiwan are different, an “Model of disaster preparedness Aboriginal tribe” that is appropriating for each tribe should be established. Furthermore, as post-disaster resource allocation issue brings inconvenience to the tribe and causes social problems, they are in need for more discussion in the future.