Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context

Flooding is one of the most common natural disaster in Malaysia especially East Coast region of Malaysia like as Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. As a result of the northeast monsoon rains that starts from November until March and where these states are going to get maximum rainfall that will cause...

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Main Authors: Nurumal, Mohd. Said, Aung, Khin Thandar, Md Yusoff, Nurul Syamimi
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spelling iium-582502018-05-17T07:21:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58250/ Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context Nurumal, Mohd. Said Aung, Khin Thandar Md Yusoff, Nurul Syamimi GE Environmental Sciences RT Nursing Flooding is one of the most common natural disaster in Malaysia especially East Coast region of Malaysia like as Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. As a result of the northeast monsoon rains that starts from November until March and where these states are going to get maximum rainfall that will cause flooding. Flood disaster that happened in 2014 was stated the most incredible event that seriously affect the community than the previous years. There is limited information available concerning their experiences after the catastrophe. This study tried to explore the experiences of all family members at a community who have been experienced flood disaster based on cultural context by using qualitative approach. The data has been analyzed using qualitative content analysis by Graneheim and Lundman (2004). The prominent themes of community were rebuilding property, struggle for food aids, social accountability, community accountability, ways of community response to insufficient water supply and coping method to illness. These discovered findings were the experiences of family in a community together understanding the value of cultural context encountered by the key informants’ aftermath of flood disaster. This in-depth understanding about the flood victims from their cultural context will give some valuable inputs to policy and top management in disaster preparedness, response and recovery for future flood disaster. Penerbit Akademia Baru 2017-08-31 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58250/1/ARSBSV8_N1_P89_96.pdf Nurumal, Mohd. Said and Aung, Khin Thandar and Md Yusoff, Nurul Syamimi (2017) Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context. Journal of Advanced Research in Social and Behavioural Sciences, 8 (1). pp. 89-96. ISSN 2462-1951 http://www.akademiabaru.com/arsbs.html
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RT Nursing
Nurumal, Mohd. Said
Aung, Khin Thandar
Md Yusoff, Nurul Syamimi
Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
description Flooding is one of the most common natural disaster in Malaysia especially East Coast region of Malaysia like as Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang. As a result of the northeast monsoon rains that starts from November until March and where these states are going to get maximum rainfall that will cause flooding. Flood disaster that happened in 2014 was stated the most incredible event that seriously affect the community than the previous years. There is limited information available concerning their experiences after the catastrophe. This study tried to explore the experiences of all family members at a community who have been experienced flood disaster based on cultural context by using qualitative approach. The data has been analyzed using qualitative content analysis by Graneheim and Lundman (2004). The prominent themes of community were rebuilding property, struggle for food aids, social accountability, community accountability, ways of community response to insufficient water supply and coping method to illness. These discovered findings were the experiences of family in a community together understanding the value of cultural context encountered by the key informants’ aftermath of flood disaster. This in-depth understanding about the flood victims from their cultural context will give some valuable inputs to policy and top management in disaster preparedness, response and recovery for future flood disaster.
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author Nurumal, Mohd. Said
Aung, Khin Thandar
Md Yusoff, Nurul Syamimi
author_facet Nurumal, Mohd. Said
Aung, Khin Thandar
Md Yusoff, Nurul Syamimi
author_sort Nurumal, Mohd. Said
title Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
title_short Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
title_full Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
title_fullStr Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
title_full_unstemmed Community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
title_sort community experiences at the aftermath of flood disaster based on cultural context
publisher Penerbit Akademia Baru
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/58250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/58250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/58250/1/ARSBSV8_N1_P89_96.pdf
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