The Impact of Flood Disaster Response Strategies on Health Outcomes: A Study of Western Equatoraia (Published)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of flood disaster response strategies on health in South Sudan. The convenient sampling technique was used to gather data from 395 respondents in Western Equatorial State. The Statistical Package for Social Science version 21 and Excel 2020 was used to analyse the data gathered. The findings of the study revealed a general agreement of the responses to the most common causes of flooding in Western Equatoria such as climate change, deforestation, industrialization and rivers. However, there was disagreement among respondents on hurricane and cyclone as the most causes of flooding in Western Equatorial County. Additionally, the study’s findings revealed panicking and fear, illness, trauma and loss of appetite as some of the behaviours/attitude people experienced after flooding. There was a general agreement to these behaviours/attitude as the average mean of the responses was above 2.9. Policy direction and direction for future studies were discussed.
Keywords: Health, South Sudan, flood disaster, flood disaster response strategy