Disaster risk reduction and sustainable development: the role for occupational health

In 2017, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly formally adopted a definition of a disaster as ‘A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts.’ (p. 13) [1]. In 2015, over 340 disasters affecting 98.6 million people worldwide were identified. These were estimated to have cost the world economy $66.5 billion worth of damage [2]. Is there a solution to address these impacts that affect the UN member states?

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