Publication record
- Original publication period
- January–June 2020
- Digitized / uploaded online
- August 10, 2026
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Abstract
Rural barangays often maintain disaster plans for storms, floods, landslides, or earthquakes while public-health communication is managed through a separate set of routines. COVID-19 demonstrated the cost of that separation. This policy analysis connects the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery responsibilities of local disaster governance with risk communication, surveillance, referral, and continuity of essential services. It proposes a household-to-barangay preparedness loop built around five functions: knowing local risk, translating warning into action, detecting and referring health threats, sustaining essential needs, and learning after exercises or events. Preparedness is judged by observable capability rather than the existence of a plan or attendance at a seminar. The article offers drill scenarios, inclusion checks, and simple records suitable for low-resource settings. It is a conceptual and documentary analysis; it does not measure awareness levels in any named barangay.