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| Deadly yet Preventable? Lessons from South Korea's Halloween Crowd Crush | |
Su, Zhaohui1; Cheshmehzangi, Ali2,3; Bentley, Barry L.3,4,5; McDonnell, Dean6; Ahmad, Junaid7; Šegalo, Sabina8; Da Veiga, Claudimar P.9; Xiang, Yu Tao10
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| 2024-09-19 | |
| Source Publication | Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
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| ISSN | 1935-7893 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Abstract | Avoidable disasters are both saddening and baffling. In 2022, 159 people, mostly in their 20s, and 30s were crushed to death in Itaewon's narrow alleyway amid South Korea's first pandemic-restrictions-free Halloween celebration. What is particularly sobering about this tragedy is that although many people called police hotlines as crowds became cramped and static, their calls went unheeded for hours. Rather than order independent investigations into the catastrophe (as of January 2024), the President of South Korea at the time focused on superficial issues such as asking the public to refer to the disaster as an accident (which it was not, it was an avoidable disaster) and the casualties as the dead (who are casualties indeed, instead of victims of a preventable tragedy). In this paper, we examine how officials' complacency about public health and safety dangers, ineffective disaster prevention, and preparedness systems, as well as the government's chronic lack of prioritization of public health and safety may have contributed to the disaster. Furthermore, we discuss the importance of creating integrated public health and safety protection systems to prevent similar tragedies from happening. |
| Keyword | COVID-19 disaster preparedness health policy public health public safety |
| DOI | 10.1017/dmp.2024.94 |
| URL | View the original |
| Language | 英語English |
| Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85204418252 |
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| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINAL ADMINISTRATION |
| Affiliation | 1.School of Public Health, Institute for Human Rights, Southeast University, Nanjing, China 2.School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia 3.Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States 4.Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom 5.Collaboration for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation, University College London, London, United Kingdom 6.Department of Humanities, South East Technological University, Carlow, Ireland 7.School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China 8.Faculty of Health Studies, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.FDC Business School, Fundação Dom Cabral, Nova Lima, MG, Brazil 10.Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health and Medicinal Administration, University of Macau, Macao |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Su, Zhaohui,Cheshmehzangi, Ali,Bentley, Barry L.,et al. Deadly yet Preventable? Lessons from South Korea's Halloween Crowd Crush[J]. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2024, 18. |
| APA | Su, Zhaohui., Cheshmehzangi, Ali., Bentley, Barry L.., McDonnell, Dean., Ahmad, Junaid., Šegalo, Sabina., Da Veiga, Claudimar P.., & Xiang, Yu Tao (2024). Deadly yet Preventable? Lessons from South Korea's Halloween Crowd Crush. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 18. |
| MLA | Su, Zhaohui,et al."Deadly yet Preventable? Lessons from South Korea's Halloween Crowd Crush".Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 18(2024). |
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