Pediatric disaster preparedness implies that systems are in place to ensure the rapid triage and emergency management of children as patients in a natural, manmade, or terrorist-initiated disaster. Children are a vulnerable population for a number of reasons that include anatomic, physiologic, immunologic, developmental and psychologic issues that are important for planning for the care of chil...

This study aimed to further our understanding of a characteristic of Community Resilience known as Disaster Governance. Three attributes of Disaster Governance-redundancy, diversity, and overlap-were studied in four coastal towns in southern Chile that are at risk of tsunamis. Overall, we explored how different spatial structures of human settlements influence Disaster Governance. Using the Pro...