NICU patients are among those potentially most vulnerable to the effects of natural or man-made disaster on a medical center. The published data on evacuations of NICU patients in the setting of disaster are sparse. In October of 2012, New York University Langone Medical Center was evacuated during Hurricane Sandy in the setting of a power outage secondary to a coastal surge. In this setting, 2...

Public health after a nuclear disaster: beyond radiation risks Claire Leppold, Tetsuya Tanimoto & Masaharu Tsubokura a Department of Research, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Minamisoma, Fukushima, 975-0033, Japan. b Department of Internal Medicine, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan. c Department of Radiation Protection, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, ...

Emergency preparedness suffers great challenges, because of the vast number of threats needing consideration and the limited resources to carry out the programs. In developed countries like the United States, technical disaster relief has surpassed natural disaster relief as the main focus of emergency preparedness. Compared with natural disasters, technical disasters demonstrate new characteri...

Disas ter p reparedness o f a megacity is enhanced by disaster preparedness of its communities. This case study shows how flood preparedness in the high-risk communities of Jakarta can be achieved through a combination of understanding their risks, preparing for disasters, and by improving the early warning of incoming inundation. What’s inside 1 Hazard and socio-economic profile of Jakarta 1 H...

We present an after-action report for a large-scale damage assessment project that followed Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the Eastern seaboard of the USA in 2012. The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) took over 35,000 GPS-tagged images of damage-affected areas, as part of their mandate to provide aerial photographs for disaster assessment and response agencies, primarily FEMA, who used the aggregate geolo...

This research focuses on the risk reduction and management of disasters in Philippines, a country prone to natural due its location Pacific Ring Fire. The study specifically examines disaster awareness practices among intermediate pupils their implications for preparedness. design utilized descriptive correlational approach with 100 from district Rizal as respondents. found that grade six consi...

Effective approaches to achieve and maintain situation awareness are a fundamental underpinning of effective management of operational medical or other assets in national security and homeland security. A neuroscience-based approach to achieving situation awareness is described and contrasted with the approach proposed originally by Endsley. This neurotechnology approach regards situation asses...

background: disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. psychosocial rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. this research attempts to study some lessons learned from psychosocial rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in iran. materials and methods:...