Disaster preparedness, resilience building and health in remote, extreme poverty, disaster prone non-Han ethnic minority based villages in China

This project aims to i) assess how health knowledge and attitude might have affected populations affinity to adopt disaster preparedness and health-enhancing related behaviors, ii) examine and compare disaster health and medical preparedness between Han and non-Han ethnic minority groups, iii) understand how urbanization may have affected health status and outcomes in remote rural disaster-prone ethnic minority population in China, iv) examine how health beliefs might be affected in the process of urbanization, & v) evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions in enhancing the knowledge and increasing behaviors.