A Community Disaster Exercise in Hartford, Conn.

'Exercise London'--a community disaster plan.

Community-Based Management Challenges in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Content Analysis in Iran

Background: The role of society and people in disaster risk management is prominent. However, using this potential and increasing the people’s role have always been a challenge. The purpose of this study was to find community-based management challenges in disaster risk reduction. Materials and Methods: Participants and Methods: This study was conducted with the qualitative approach and ...

Community emergency/disaster preparedness.

Promoting community preparedness: lessons learned from the implementation of a chemical disaster tabletop exercise.

Health educators are frequently called on to facilitate community preparedness planning. One planning tool is community-wide tabletop exercises. Tabletop exercises can improve the preparedness of public health system agencies to address disaster by bringing together individuals representing organizations with different roles and perspectives in specific disasters. Thus, they have the opportunit...

Disaster planning. A major accident exercise.